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Cain's avatar

Amazing news Darrel - so pleased to hear this! I also love that Dylan song. The dub reggae artist Keith Hudson also released a nice cover of it in 1974: https://youtu.be/Asp-NiJMSV8?si=CiapPAoiUN-dFvka

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I'm so happy about your release, Darrell.

As for the question of patients' agency in their own recovery, my own preference is to think it's not up to me. My family makes fun of me because, whenever I'm ill, I just want the doctor to fix me--like taking a car to the mechanic. I don't want the responsibility burden of healing myself--or of failing to heal myself!

As for being cured of cancer, I call it a cure when the probability of a recurrence is the same as someone my age's getting cancer for the first time. That is never zero.

I'm happy to think of you enjoying the next weeks of freedom.

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