When you have your first visit to your oncologist, you get scripts for meds that will help you through the days and nights of endless side effects. What is also desperately needed can’t be prescribed. It’s something that AI, robots, or machines can’t do. The part you need can’t be measured or timed. It’s the spontaneous acts from one human to another. It’s words of warmth and light that fill the dark spaces. It’s a hug that brings immeasurable comfort. That’s what is needed for the in between moments, when the weight of what you are carrying holds you down in a dark place of your mind. Staying connected to life is what brings you through to the other side, people do that for you.
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