Full of Grace
“Michael said.
“A week from Tuesday. Taking a bunch of guys and their wives to Vegas.”
“On the same trip? Isn’t Vegas where you are supposed to go to fool around?”
“Yeah, but this trip was booked as a family vacation. They’re bringing kids, nannies—the whole family. Grandmothers, too!”
“Play the slots for me—I’m feeling lucky.”
“Yeah, right. You’ve got a string of idiots telling you that you have a very ugly brain cancer and you feel lucky? How crazy are you?”
That was how we had come to talk of... Michael’s disease—as something we would only have to suffer for the short term. Michael was going to be fine. It was Wednesday and we were on the way to see our third neuro-oncologist. They all said pretty much the same thing. Michael has a malignant glioblastoma that is almost always fatal. The problem with this particular kind of brain cancer, they said, with their somber faces and starched white jackets, was that the tumors were like hot peanut butter spread on English muffins—they sank into your nooks and crannies.MoreLess
“A week from Tuesday. Taking a bunch of guys and their wives to Vegas.”
“On the same trip? Isn’t Vegas where you are supposed to go to fool around?”
“Yeah, but this trip was booked as a family vacation. They’re bringing kids, nannies—the whole family. Grandmothers, too!”
“Play the slots for me—I’m feeling lucky.”
“Yeah, right. You’ve got a string of idiots telling you that you have a very ugly brain cancer and you feel lucky? How crazy are you?”
That was how we had come to talk of... Michael’s disease—as something we would only have to suffer for the short term. Michael was going to be fine. It was Wednesday and we were on the way to see our third neuro-oncologist. They all said pretty much the same thing. Michael has a malignant glioblastoma that is almost always fatal. The problem with this particular kind of brain cancer, they said, with their somber faces and starched white jackets, was that the tumors were like hot peanut butter spread on English muffins—they sank into your nooks and crannies.MoreLess
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