Dying Healthy

摘要

My neighbor, Maria*, asked me to watch her house while she visited her parents. When she returned, she sunk on to my couch and dissolved into tears. Oh-oh! We have known each other a long time, so I could cut right to the chase. "What's happened?" "It's Mom. She's a young 74, in great shape, never smoked, and we just found out she has cancer. While I was there, Mom and I saw two oncology specialists, and a chemotherapy nurse. She had a PET scan, CT scan, x-rays, a bron-choscopy, and was told she had stage ЗА, non-small-cell lung cancer, squamous cell type."