News Summary

• Doctors suspected a brain tumor, but metastatic cancer was still a possibility.
• After a lifetime of being told to stand out and be unique, she finally did just that.
• The prognosis, she later gathered, was bleak: The odds were she would live for just three months longer.
• Unluckily, the statistical probability of my having a terminal illness was a formidable double-digit number.
• No one dared to say it out loud, though my medical team did not discuss the treatment in my case.