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Aliakbar salehi Posted 10 years ago
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she was not so much speaking to me as pleading, a mere human, with whatever forces and fates truly control these things.
“But when the cancer recurs…I mean, the probabilities…” I paused. First-line therapy (Tarceva)
had failed. Second-line therapy (chemo) had nearly killed me. Third-line therapy, if I could even get
there, made few promises. Beyond that, the vast unknown of experimental treatments. Phrases of
doubt fell from my mouth. “I mean, getting back to the OR, or to walking, or even—”
“You have five good years left,” she said.
She pronounced it, but without the authoritative tone of an oracle, without the confidence of a
true believer. She said it, instead, like a plea. Like that patient who could speak only in numbers. Like
she was not so much speaking to me as pleading, a mere human, with whatever forces and fates truly
control these things. There we were, doctor and patient, in a relationship that sometimes carries a
magisterial air and other times, like now, was no more, and no less, than two people huddled together,
as one faces the abyss.
what does"she was not so much speaking to me as pleading, a mere human, with whatever forces and fates truly
control these things." mean?
had failed. Second-line therapy (chemo) had nearly killed me. Third-line therapy, if I could even get
there, made few promises. Beyond that, the vast unknown of experimental treatments. Phrases of
doubt fell from my mouth. “I mean, getting back to the OR, or to walking, or even—”
“You have five good years left,” she said.
She pronounced it, but without the authoritative tone of an oracle, without the confidence of a
true believer. She said it, instead, like a plea. Like that patient who could speak only in numbers. Like
she was not so much speaking to me as pleading, a mere human, with whatever forces and fates truly
control these things. There we were, doctor and patient, in a relationship that sometimes carries a
magisterial air and other times, like now, was no more, and no less, than two people huddled together,
as one faces the abyss.
what does"she was not so much speaking to me as pleading, a mere human, with whatever forces and fates truly
control these things." mean?
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aliakbar salehi she was not so much speaking to me as pleading, a mere human, with whatever forces and fates truly control these things She was not speaking to me in the normal way people speak to each other. It seemed to me that she was actually begging to some "higher powers" who have control over situations like mine. CJ
- aliakbar salehi she was not so much speaking to me as pleading, a mere human, with whatever forces and fates truly control these things She was not speaking to me in the normal way people speak to each other.
- It seemed to me that she was actually begging to some "higher powers" who have control over situations like mine.
- CJ
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aliakbar salehishe was not so much speaking to me as pleading, a mere human, with whatever forces and fates truly control these thingsShe was not speaking to me in the normal way people speak to each other. It seemed to me that she was actually begging to some "higher powers" who have control over situations like mine.
CJ
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