my first blog, a way for me to process my experience of being diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma
I am a professor at a Canadian university. I’m married, have close relationships with my family, love my 2 dogs, love travel, and enjoy hiking (but day hikes only – not really into the hut-to-hut thing). I really hope I can get through this and do some major hikes again in the future. Thank god I also love reading novels (literary prize winners, but also espionage, detective, and sometimes Sci-fi). And thank god I live in an era of excellent tv. And thank god I love writing. There are many things I can still do that I love, even having cancer and being more home-bound than I would like to be.
If you’re new, I recommend starting with How I Found Out.
At least a few times a week — sometimes when I wake up, sometimes in the middle of a TV show, sometimes washing dishes — I’ll find myself inhabited by utter disbelief. This is not my real life. Where did my real life go?
The cancer is becoming more real to me, but it’s still not totally real. I’ve seen the CT scan, I’m in chemotherapy, and yet part of me still can’t believe this is happening to me. Where did my real life go?
My Liver Cancer Blog 
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