If she’d been diagnosed in 1981, the rates would have gone up by 15 percent. But she was diagnosed in April 2001, and therefore neither Rhonda Nighly nor anyone else on the cancer floor was terribly surprised when, just a few months after Elaine began chemotherapy, her estrogen concentrations wer...
He busied himself preparing elaborate tests, attending to his daughters’ homework, and seeing Melissa Potter. He was, in fact, seeing too much of Melissa. She babysat for him all the time, occasionally just showing up at his house to see if he needed a hand. When she arrived, she urged him to get...