about losing one\'s life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that\'s achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness.
Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is hospitalized a.
Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O\'Brien to learn what is causing that numbness.
Then it spreads.
It begins with numbness on her left leg.
about losing one\'s life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that\'s achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness