A relative phones to comiserate on my terminal liver cancer diagnosis. "How are you feeling?" she asks, in that special voice, beloved of hospice staff, specially reserved for the very sick. How do you tell people that although you're genuinely grateful for their call, you find it incredibly difficult to talk about? I like to put things in emails, but not everyone is comfortable with this approach....
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Lets start at the beginning of the end. Just like the textbooks said it would, my ocular melanoma spread to my liver within 5 years of diagnosis. My last appointment with my consultant was bleak - 80% of my liver is now affected and there's nothing more he can do for me.
"Surely, with his six figure salary and decades of tax-payer funded education, he can do more than hold your hand and say he's sorry?" says my husband…
