"Cancer or not cancer - what, in essence, is the difference?"

01–05.04.2013

The New Times continues to monitor the history of a person who has been diagnosed with a deadly diagnosis*

Recently it became known that the remarkable writer Ian Banks found cancer of the gall bladder in the terminal stage. Therefore, he wrote on his website that he had a couple of months to live. From the moment of diagnosis to this day, he managed to marry (made an offer to his lover in the form: “Whether she would honor him to become his widow”) and ask the publisher to speed up his last book in order to have time to see her on the book shelves.

I liked the wording of the proposal of the hand and heart. A writer is felt in it. I remember that I got it somehow simpler, only with the same meaning. I made an offer to my girlfriend not after they found cancer, namely after they told me that there was one and a half to two years to live. So, having received her consent, I began to paint how cool life will be now. At the same time, I was forced to last only the very closest prospect.

The next morning I pleased the doctor. At this point, I agreed even with the registry office: they needed only a medical certificate that "a person is in a state threatening life." “Well, you do not scream your soul against the truth, and even a faucle from this lymphoma,” I said with this lymphoma. “In a state threatening life, I must send you to intensive care, and not to the registry office,” the doctor laughed. “But we will come up with something.” I was the first patient in the career of the doctor who needed a certificate for the registry office, so that we composed it together. She did not agree to write about the threat of life, so it turned out quite optimistic: “Chemotherapy, oncology, chemotherapy ...” half of the certificate came to these words.

Using a free clock in the hospital, I sat down for the missing stories for my book. What the devil is not joking, maybe I will still be able to see her on the book shelves. Cancer or not cancer - what, in essence, is the difference? Life is going on, and it is necessary to live normally in it: I’m not sure that information about the imminent death is a strong encumbrance. All are mortal, even worse - "suddenly mortal." Just not everyone remembers this every day.

So I finish the book, lie under a dropper, endure some very strange severe back pains and calmly wait for the end of April, when instrumental control will be carried out and the results of treatment with Brentuximab were given. A completely ordinary life. Without excessive fuss.

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