Diagnosed with metastatic esophageal cancer on 8 June saw, 2011 Christopher Hitchens, he was transported to a strange place. Until his death 18 months later, the award-winning author picked up pen and wrote about his travels in a "new country" where everyone, "smiled encouragingly," "where the cuisine is the worst of any destination" and where one language is spoken, that "it is possible to both boring and difficult." The recently published book "mortality" is his journey in "sick country," a place we call Cancer country.
The idea of moving away is "described cancer land." In Chet Skibinski's 2012 diary-like book "On 15 May 2008 I went to a foreign country" with freakish rules and annoying habits. Skibinski takes the reader on his journey though several years of complex care and metamorphosis, not only medical but also social, spiritual and personal.
Cancer Country is a place not only visited by a body, hospitals, clinics, undergone knives, drugs, x-rays and deconstruction of machines, but it is an object of the mind, where confusion know to transform isolation and fear grows, and comfort in a bizarre, painful, spinning world that tries to break the mental suffering result. As a patient, authors note that it is a transit of which it is difficult to return.
Cancer patients throw from safety, stability and control in a state of danger, chaos and subjugation. Understanding of the disease process as an independent site, with foreign language offers, morals and goals Notes on the survival of the body and mind. Cancer see land as unwelcome Kafkaesque journey can help us in the fight against the disease and adapt to the changes that occur.
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