The title came from a friend of mine who received her first cancer diagnosis around 2003. She described tying, untying, retying her boot as her doctor used a bunch of words that didn't make sense to her at the time, she was in so much shock. How clinical it had all been while she obsessively just tied, untied, retied her boot over and over again. I kind of wish I'd been there to smack her doctor upside the head. In…
