Living With a Serious Illness

I Have Been There Myself

In 1990, I had a serious illness called large cell lymphoma which is a fast-growing highly malignant tumor of the lymph glands. I was an internal medicine doctor in practice by myself. One son had just started college. The other would start in a couple of years. I told the oncologist, “I can’t fool around, I need to know what this means because of the s…