What a thing

On Coping #115

You tried all the conventional treatments.

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Chemo.

Radiation.

Surgery.

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Poison it.

Burn it.

Cut it.

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They didn’t work.

So you looked elsewhere.

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Your friend N. raised significant fund to send you to Mexico.

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There you tried

Coffee enemas

Red light therapy

Water fasting

High dose vitamins

Oxygen therapy.

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You returned with fresh hope

renewed spirituality

and five more tumours.

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So we looked at innovative treatments all over the world.

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In Germany they were cutting patients open and dripping chemotherapy drugs directly onto the cancer.

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That sounds promising you say.

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It comes with a hefty price tag.

So others join the fundraising effort.

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A concert is arranged in your name.

The reunion of the original cast of Spring Awakening which you produced 15 years prior.

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A show you took deep pride and pleasure in having worked on.

A musical about breaking free

despair

and Hope.

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The production you were working on when we met.

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The concert takes place in summer - June 2024.

Three months after the Spring in which you die.

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So you don’t get to see it.

Or benefit from the money it raises.

Or hear the words M. - one of the actors - reads before the performance.

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This is what she said: