"I'll still live"

The New Times continues to follow the story of a man who received a terminal diagnosis*

17–21.06.2013

Every morning I start with a forced ritual: after brushing my teeth, I have to sit down to “clean” the comments on my blog in LiveJournal. Each time it gives some regular fresh impressions about the state of society and the mood of people. For example, the topic about urban ecology, which seemed to concern everyone, collected about two hundred responses. But the topic of tolerance towards minorities is heated battles and more than a thousand replicas. Among them, I came across a very revealing comment (tolerance in our country is somehow bad for the masses): “When are you going to die from your cancer?! You seem to be collecting money for this!

I don’t know about anyone, but such attacks invigorate me: you immediately feel that if the level of opponents has reached such a point, it means that I did something really good. The only pity is the time that is spent on all this. In general, I feel very keenly that it is time that is the most valuable and completely irreplaceable resource in human life. We have to replenish, increasing the intensity of life.

I have now returned to New York: while there was a correspondence with pharmacists to order a new drug for me, I asked the doctors to fly home. I already have four cancerous vertebrae in my back, so every transatlantic flight is difficult: but the period of legal stay in the United States was expiring and making an exit / entry turned out to be the easiest way to solve the problem. In order not to risk immediately with an 11-hour flight, I flew to Moscow via London: there are concessions for Russians there, and a border officer can let them into the country even without a transit visa. Usually such exceptions are made only for those who need to move between airports, but the need to rest my back turned out to be reason enough for a British border officer. The level of development of society, by the way, can be quite easily assessed in relation to the sick, the elderly, the weak.

When I returned to the USA, I pleased the doctors that the issue of paying for the transplant had now been resolved. They are very worried about me, every time they are looking for opportunities to save me from the next expenses. So they pleased me in return that the pharmacological company agreed to give me, a foreign citizen, a discount on lenalidomide. So I will live. And I'll pee. All deaths and fools out of spite. The drug has already arrived at the clinic, we are starting this week :)

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