cancer
'Words were always my safe place.'
"...we've penetrated and destroyed the Death Star..."
"Today’s findings...could change the treatment of prostate cancer forever."
Max Neill was presented with a masters in Critical Learning Disabilities Studies
"We would like to thank every single one of you."
"I find myself wondering if I will ever find a partner in life."
"Cancer threatened to take everything from my daughter, and your books turned out to be the fortress we so desperately needed to hide in."
We take it for granted, a social convention, wishing a Happy New Year. This year the words did not flow for me. I was visiting a close relative, about my age, recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and undergoing a severe treatment regime.
