Janis Chen’s description of living with incurable cancer - including the analogy of being stuck in extra time of a football match - resonates deeply. I’ve borrowed from it in my new post about 1,000 days with Stage 4 cancer.
www.petesprogress.com/post/1-000-d...
It's a few days after my 52nd birthday. We had a great Bank Holiday weekend, celebrating with friends and family; even the weather held out until my annual birthday barbecue was winding down.There ha...
Janis Chen - I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle | Death and dying | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss