My surroundings are forgotten, I allow the household chores to be put on hold, the answering machine answers my incoming calls. I will even skip meals. Instead I will ravish the pages, ignoring everything else. However,I didn't read Dr. Geffen's book, The Journey Through Cancer in this manner. I basically knew before beginning to read it that the subject wasn't one that I would necessarily want to sink my teeth into.
Cancer is a tough subject.
And although I have lost a couple of friends and distant family members to cancer I have never been involved in choosing the type of care and treatments that were available to them. I basically felt emotionally removed from the topic. And because of this, it was my desire initially to read this book from this detached stance. I read this book over a period of weeks, reading a chapter here and a chapter there whenever I found myself with a few spare moments. As it turned out, and certainly not out of coincidence, as I don't believe in coincidences, I often found myself reading the pages while I sat in doctors' offices.