Examine Yourself: I didn’t ‘battle’ cancer, it was sheer dumb luck

Cancer may not be the super killer it used to be, but you still don’t ever want to get a letter from the hospital with the words ‘not signed to avoid delay’ and ‘abnormal results’ on the same page.

It’s not a fun feeling. It’s terrifying. And quite surreal, making you zoom out of yourself in the doctor’s office, and hover overhead, watching proceedings from the ceiling. Look at the doctor’s amusing cuff links. His large ears. The photographs of his family on his desk.