I Never Thought I'd See You Again: A Novelists Inc. Anthology - Plot & Excerpts
Not really. Oh, they might have a thought of it in the back of their mind, an inkling that it’s coming, a hint that it’s a real possibility. But to actually hear it spoken out loud, to have the doctor force out that very well-practiced look of sympathy, squeeze you on the arm and say, “I’m sorry, but you’ve got cancer,” no one really expects to hear that. So it was no wonder the first few minutes after her diagnosis, she was numb. You’ve got cancer . . . cancer . . . cancer . . . “Can you tell me exactly what that means?” she asked the older of the two doctors, the one in the yellow and pink party dress and five inch spike heels who hadn’t expected to spend her afternoon in the ER, and was making it clear she didn’t want to be there. the twenty-first centuryle and he “It means tests to begin with. Then surgery. After that . . . ” She shrugged indifferently. “Chemo, radiation. It’s too soon to tell, exactly, what we’ll be doing.”
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