The Shiver

(Or, working like hell)

I have decided to quit cancer.

Not the science. Not the treatment that keeps me here. I am not walking away from medicine or survival. I am done with the identity of cancer. The way it tries to claim my life. The way it wants to be my whole story.

Cancer is a job now, and I intend to quit.

Before this, I worked in a lot of places and met a lot of people. …