It's Not About the Hair: And Other Certainties of Life & Cancer by Jarvis Debra

Author:Jarvis, Debra [Jarvis, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781570616631
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 2009-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

Later that day I met George, an elderly man with esophageal cancer. He was frail and bent over. He was pretty quiet with everyone, but since he was a new patient, I stopped by to say hi and introduce myself.

At first he didn’t say much, but the television was on with a story about Iraq. This is how we got on the subject of war, and then he began telling me about being in World War II. He talked about seeing men die before his eyes, about staying in a foxhole for days, about not wanting to die.

As he talked, I saw that deep inside he was not weak and sick but strong and powerful. I could feel all the love in and around him. I saw the tree in the fence.

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