The Uneasy Grace of Healing: Reflections on a Decade with Cancer
It’s been ten years since cancer entered my life, challenging my understanding of illness, healing, and identity.
As a physician turned patient, I’ve learned that survival isn’t a finish line, but a state of being that reshapes how we inhabit our bodies and stories.
ten years ago, I began my journey as a prostate cancer survivor
However, I resist this descriptor, as it suggests an “otherness” and implies a journey, which gives it an underlying “holidayness,” a separation from everyday life.
In reality, there is a threshold between being at ease and being dis-eased, particularly when your whole life has been as a physician rather than patient.
Author's summary: Reflections on a decade with cancer.
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