Dr. Wang had a poster on the wall of the human body with the meridian points written in Chinese. She told me that after the Cultural Revolution, she was able to get out of China and eventually make it to the States. She asked me a lot of quick questions that implied she already knew the answers: “Do you get stressed often?” “Do you worry?” I’d heard this stuff before—the idea that women like me go too fast. Work too hard. That we cause our own cancers. It’s a dangerous brand of reasoning. “You must have been very run-down in the years both your boys were babies at the same time,” Dr. Wang said next.“No more than any other woman,” I answered. “And I’m really not that stressed.” I decided I wasn’t going to make the consultation so easy for her. I wanted to tell Dr. Wang that in my house we have family meals. Play board games. I’m a freelance writer and teacher, not a corporate executive. How much stress can there be?That was when Dr. Wang said, “Something in your life caused your immune system to fail.”
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