anxiety

Living with cancer in remission is like living in an active minefield, moving carefully, hardly daring to breathe, keeping to well-worn tracks, but knowing that even those, swept carefully, may still hide an unexploded bomb, while hearing, in the distance, the intermittent explosions from the fields where others live similar lives.

Look fine – reports of people dying in their eighties and nineties, sad but expected, or at least not unexpected, had a good innings, a full life, all that. But please, media outlets, could you stop telling me of deaths of people in their sixties and early seventies. That\’s not a good innings, that\’s a

I reckon in real life Damocles was in remission from cancer.