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Susie steiner manon bradshaw books7/4/2023 ![]() He describes how the ambulance comes to take the sick to a different world, after which they can only look on the normal world from a distance, desperate to get back. The only thing I’ll return to is envy.Ĭhristopher Hitchens is brilliant on this in his book Mortality, a series of seven unapologetically angry essays about his struggle with oesophageal cancer. Things are trickier coming out of lockdown: I face the prospect of other people returning to their lives while I remain locked in. The hospital, where I go for blood tests, is empty, making the whole process much quicker. My treatment has been seamless: the monthly meeting with my consultant now happens on the phone and the chemo is couriered to me. ![]() It has been easier, weirdly, to cope with my illness during lockdown, because I’m not the only one whose life is on hold, not the only one terrified of dying. ![]()
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