Cathy Siepp, a wonderful, smart and funny writer, reveals she has lung cancer.
Because sure, breast cancer is no fun; I’ve had friends who’ve died of it. But it also has a survival rate of around 85%. That’s the unsurvival rate of lung cancer, which is what I have. I’m actually lucky still to be alive, given that I was diagnosed almost three and a half years ago, after a cough that wouldn’t go away, and most lung cancer patients don’t make it past two years. Except that, since I never smoked even one cigarette, never lived or worked with smokers, and in fact have zero family history and no other risk factors at all (unusual even in people who don’t get cancer), the bald truth is I’m pretty unlucky to have this in the first place.
The upside of cancer?
One is that you can put the fear of God into people with hardly any effort at all,
and
The other advantage is people reveal themselves to you as they really are – it’s almost like a solution for invisible ink
I wish her the fullest of life along with my fond hopes she writes for a long time.