The phone rang around 2:30 PM, and the caller ID showed that it was the hospital. The nurse called to share, “The tests are positive.” The first thing I asked was “Both of them?” She confirmed that both biopsies were indeed positive and that she was sorry. The next thing I asked was, “What’s the plan?” “What are you doing…
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced the five stages of grief in her 1969 work On Death and Dying. In school, I memorized the stages at DABDA – Denial, Anger, Bargaining...
