“Well, it’s the good kind of cancer. You will be better soon.”
Those are the words Elizabeth Gillette heard from some people when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at 21 years old. She would need several rounds of chemotherapy followed by radiation treatment. She was terrified — and shocked to hear anyone refer to her cancer as good.
These “responses effectively closed me off to having any further conversation with them because I knew they didn’t understand how scared...
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