Wit

 

“Miss Bearing, you have advanced metastatic ovarian cancer.”

“I believe I was being thoroughly diagnosed.”

“The first week of each cycle you'll be hospitalized for chemotherapy” 

The next week you may feel a little tired.”

“The next two will be fine, relatively. Eight months like that.”

“This treatment is the strongest thing we have to offer you.”

“The important thing is for you to take the full dose of chemotherapy.”

“There may be times when you wish for a lesser dose, due to the side effects.”

“But we've got to go full force.”

“I've been asked, "How are you feeling?"

“while throwing up into a plastic basin.”

“I have been asked...”

“As I was emerging from a four-hour operation...with a tube in every orifice:”

"How are you feeling today?"

"Significant contribution to knowledge."

"Eight cycles of chemotherapy."

“Give me the full dose.”

“The full dose every time.”

“The attention was flattering...”

“for the first five minutes.”

 

 

 

 

Vivian had realized what was the actually meaning of life, that to be intelligent wasn’t all. It took her cancer’s treatment for her realize that. I believe if Vivian would have survived the cancer, she would become a more humane person. She would have lived the rest of her life differently. Unlike, Lucy Grealy, she was a survivor cancer but her life had gone downhill. She became addict to drugs and she never found her true identity. Lucy’s biggest struggle was trying to figure who she was in life and Vivian’s biggest struggle was trying to seek for the attention that she didn’t gave. Lucy’s cancer damages her life because she wasn’t able to be a normal human because she was always being the hospital. Actually was never able to live a normal life since, many people would be rude to her because of the deformation of her face. Vivian’s cancer made her realize that there is more about life that just being the smartest person you can be. Unfortunately, for Vivian she wasn’t able to live life in a different perspective as she wish. However, Lucy had the opportunity to change her life, but she didn’t take advantage of it.