Contents
ONE / The Diagnosis
Chapter 1. “Physician, heal thyself”
Chapter 2. Egalitarianism Bumps against Personal Needs
Chapter 3. The Power of Language
Chapter 4. Telling My People
Chapter 5. “Lies, damn lies, and statistics”
TWO / The Three Hells: Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiation
Chapter 6. Biology for Artists and Linguists
Chapter 7. The Nodes Know
Chapter 8. Interlude. Adrift.
Chapter 9. Pain and Mutilation
Chapter 10. La morte, la vie
Chapter 11. Kill My Cancer but Don’t Kill Me
Chapter 12. Rapunzel, Rapunzel . . .
Chapter 13. Seeing Purple Seashells and Other Unexpected Things
Chapter 14. Latrogenesis
Chapter 15. Friends, Forever
Chapter 16. And Then They Burn You
THREE / Reentry and Beyond
Chapter 17. Emerging
Chapter 18. It Never Goes Away
Chapter 19. The Road to Wellness Goes through Monterey, California and Almaty, Kazakhstan
Chapter 20. Restructuring a Life