【美队】Katie Couric The Best Advice I Ever Got, Part 8

Original Video - More videos at TinyPic 这片很悲,本想等过了年再发,后来觉得there are still positive messages in the sad story. So I decided to use it to add one more post for our 【美队】 欢迎多多批评指正. That was BC. Before cancer. That jarring transition was exactly how it felt. Just fifteen months after Carrie was born, Jay was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer and we were pulled into a swirling vortex of panic, depression, anxiety, and fear. We were desperate to find any reason to hope, but the situation, I can only now admit, was hopeless. When I told my mother-in-law, Carol (who was herself undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer), that the doctor had informed me that there were tumors all over Jay’s liver, she responded with a deflated and uncharacteristic “Shit.” What followed were nine months of brutal treatments, endless futile searches for newly discovered therapies, and copious quantities of denial. We never talked about the fact that Jay might die Acknowledging that made it too real. The closest thing to a discussion of the possibility of death came when I told Jay that if something happened to him, I didn’t think I could come to the country house we had just bought. I couldn’t imagine going there, to his dream house, without him. “Well,” he said, cushioning the blow of his almost guaranteed absence, “I hope it will be full of happy memories.” He died after collapsing on the floor of our powder room on January 24, 1998. The life I had imagined and cherished was also buried on a freezing, windy January afternoon.

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• 好读，读得越来越好了。 -yingyudidida- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2013 postreply 08:45:36

• 听出问题不说不厚道。 -yingyudidida- ♂ (155 bytes) () 02/20/2013 postreply 08:51:38

• 谢谢being 厚道:-))). 真是有人指出后才有长进.再听一听,你指出的问提很正确. -2msmom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2013 postreply 19:51:33

• Nice ... -Lucidus- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2013 postreply 10:53:30

• 谢谢! -2msmom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2013 postreply 19:52:14

• Agree with Bill's comments. One more thing to note: -非文学青年- ♀ (488 bytes) () 02/20/2013 postreply 15:14:36

• 谢谢美青! Always very helpful! -2msmom- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2013 postreply 19:48:03