Cancer is one of the most common diseases of our age, and yet those who face it rarely know what’s about to happen to them beyond the broadest terms. “Cancer up Close” is an open recount of Michele Goncalves’s cancer journey from pre-diagnosis to life after treatment.
I thought scheduling my ileostomy reversal surgery was going to be a piece of cake after finishing my chemotherapy and resting my body for a month. In my mind, all I was going to have to do was call up my surgeon and pick a date, like making a haircut appointment. Sadly, this wasn’t how it worked. No matter how anxious I was to get through the final hurdle of my cancer treatment journey, there were multiple unpleasant procedures I had to do first in order to get the green light for my surgery.
