At a small Chicago clinic, an Alaska nurse called about my daughter and said, “Your son-in-law hasn’t been here.” I booked the first flight north without crying, and by dawn, his Bahamas honeymoon was no longer the worst thing I’d found. – News

decide what level of pain was worth survival—Derek was furious.

Not loud.

Worse.

Disappointed.

“He acted like I’d embarrassed him,” Emily said. “Like I’d chosen something tacky. He kept saying, ‘I thought we were aligned.’”

The chemo made her sick fast. Weight loss, vomiting, weakness, pain. Derek started talking then about image, about how unstable her continue reading …