My Husband Broke Out of Cancer Denial Only Once — on His Final Birthday
5 min readFeb 28, 2023
Four years ago today, we celebrated what would become my husband Jerry’s last birthday, his sixtieth.
At that point we had been living for quite a while on the edge of the worst of times. He had just come through a months-long thyroid cancer crisis he wouldn’t share with anyone, even as he walked around exhausted, with a surgically inserted…