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Make no mistake, the news yesterday was encouraging rather than discouraging. But I'll tell you what really hit me aside from the personal impact.
My wife had a roughly 1:1000 kind of tumor. And a top doc at a first rate hospital looks us squarely in the eye and says "we simply don't know, and there's not really any data to look at". And from that we make life-altering decisions.
What hit me was if we're this high & dry in terms of information and guidance, what must it be like from people who have 1:1,000,000 or rarer situations?
I'm not faulting medicine, or doctors, or anything else. Not complaining even.
I just know unarmed & ill-equipped we feel while trying to figure shit out, I can barely fathom what it must be like for those who land in far murkier waters. Gives me a new respect and insight for those cases.
#fuckcancer
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"I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis
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