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In all the hoopla and aftermath of the party I forgot to mention the gospel.\u00a0 The good news.\u00a0 The friend’s wife I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, the one diagnosed with cancer?\u00a0 She came to the party.\u00a0 Not only that she said her energy was better than it had been for a while.\u00a0 She looked good, too.\u00a0 Both she and her husband looked still vulnerable, the residue of concern, fear lingering.\u00a0 She has a hormone treatment, recommended by her oncologist, that may keep the cancer at bay.\u00a0 Not cure it, but keep it from getting a firm grasp on her.<\/p>\n
As Leni said, another party goer that same night, about his throat cancer, “Well, you know, the goal now is to make cancer a chronic disease.\u00a0 Something you can manage.”\u00a0 He’s living proof, having survived in apparent good health for several years now.\u00a0 He and the friend’s wife were not alone, either.\u00a0 Hank, another party goer, has leukemia, a disease kept in check now for many years, so much so that it almost recedes into the background.<\/p>\n
These are the three I know about.\u00a0 There were probably others.\u00a0 Cancer no longer has the skull and cross-bones attached to its every appearance.\u00a0 Think of it.\u00a0 Cancer is not a new disease.\u00a0 It killed people relentlessly in all centuries before the last one.\u00a0 Now, it begins to look, at least in many cases, like the caged tiger, pacing back and forth within its chemical compound, its lethality imprisoned, though not rendered harmless.<\/p>\n
Kate has retired from the practice of medicine as others graduate each year to take up the responsibility, this tricky act we call healing.\u00a0 It has more parts than chemistry and technology and knives, we know this, yet those parts themselves, the fruits of engineering and science, have a great deal to offer.\u00a0 Perhaps this next century is the one where the enlightenment driven side of medicine will meet the ageless truths of the human spirit, joining together in a medicine, a healing for the whole person.\u00a0\u00a0 It may be that the last years of the baby boom generation, now upon us, will provide the impetus for this fusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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