It was the realization that I was in this alone.” “Freedom,” she writes, “was going solo to chemo. And freedom, she also confides, “was learning to care for myself.” It turns out by that time she’s picked up on a pattern - “the different phases of Patienthood,” she calls it - she’s noticed that the newly diagnosed have an entourage, whereas by the time “a patient had the misfortune of being sick for longer than a year or two they could handle coming to the hospital alone.” IN CHAPTER 17, smack in the middle of her just-published memoir, Between Two Kingdoms - about surviving an aggressive cancer in her early 20s - Suleika Jaouad considers “The Chronology of Freedom.” Freedom, she writes, after years in hospital care, post a bone-marrow transplant and still in treatment, was moving into an apartment with her boyfriend eating spaghetti by candlelight sharing a bed intuiting how to be intimate again.
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