Contents
Preface
Not a Clue
No Matter What It Is
Don’t Clone This
Get the Fuck Out of My Way: I Have Cancer!
Biopsy Surgery: Is Anything About This Going to Be Funny?
Waking Up
How to Talk to People About Your Cancer
Keeping My Story Straight
I’d Rather Not Know Anyway
Quit That Looking at Me!
Where Did I Last See It?
The Evanescence of the Epidermis
Make a Wish
You’re the Expert: So Listen to Me Carefully
I’m Listening—for Now
Welcome to Chemo 101: Any Questions?
Nausea Treatment (to Be Used Only in the Event of an Emergency)
Through the Fog to Gratitude
How Are You? Great, Thanks, and You?
Back So Soon?
“Revelations” from the Infusion Room
My Real Selves
A New Year’s Barbeque
This Is Not What I Had Planned
Existential Dread?
TMI
My Afterlife
My Blind Spots
Letting Go
Fuck Cancer!
Watching but Not Waiting
On Not Being the Center of the Universe
Afterward
Research Interlude
Epilogue
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Authors