Diagnosis Cancer: Reordering A Life

摘要

The first casualty of my cancer diagnosis was my self-concept of indestructibility. For many years, I've been accustomed to being told that I look younger than my chronological age, to awakening at 5:00 a.m. without an alarm clock and to working on my feet full-steam for 10-hour days. I've also been on blood-pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs and have chewed enough antacids to consider them dietary supplements. At age 72, I had neither the desire nor a plan to retire. I share my physical and emotional journey since June 2002 here so that my fellow "inde-structibles" might be moved to pause and re-evaluate where they are in life.