It’s difficult to know what to say about this one. The author tells, very frankly and with plenty of humor at times, what is it like living day-to-day with a terminal cancer. The pain, suffering, odd hours visits to hospital, what the doctors do and don’t tell her, the awkward things people say to her, or how complete strangers comment on things unknowing. She had no outward signs of being ill- people on the bus or street wouldn’t guess she was living with cancer, often too exhausted to even get out of bed. It really made her think deeply about how many other people are walking around with problems or illness that are just invisible. How we ought to be so much kinder to each other. How unfair it all was. And she faced it so bravely. She was a gardener and an artist and loved cooking. There was a lot in here I simply didn’t know, about what it is like to go through cancer treatment- in her case mostly palliative measures- it was very eye-opening and solemn and much of it just made me feel sad. And yet she still had hope through most of it, and lived each day the best she could. Admirable.
Please read some of the other reviews, linked to below. Borrowed from the public library.
