A family physician considers the importance of metaphors and imagery when grappling with life-threatening, unimaginable illness.
Read moreOn (Un)Knowing: A Reflection on the Imagination and the Body by poet Michelle Dyer
As I lay on the table while the doctor poked and prodded inside my breast, clipping the lump inside me like flower stems, I imagined what the thing might look–what, exactly, lay beneath, and if it had a name.
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