[Dr. Bobsky]

When I attend seminars where brilliant scientist speak to the inevitability of cancer's return, and yet throw themselves back onto the draining task of finding better ways of fighting it, I see only some of what it must be like to be the patient that must find reserves upon reserves of survival. There are some wild things happening in the field these days, including, as I heard yesterday, turning cancer cells into factories for immunotherapies that act against themselves. But for all of the promise of progress, it doesn't encapsulate the experience of the here and now. It doesn't capture the patient fighting against their body, their pain, and the abject and open bleakness of all of our finite reality. Yet you manage all of this with an amazing amount of grace and humor, curious. I am glad that your pain is being managed, and I hope that your continued sunrises find you unbending and present. May the THC see you well!

All the best!