2020-03-05
21 分钟Lesley Manville ("Ordinary Love") reads an essay by Sally Hoskins about finding an unexpected support group in a hospital waiting room.
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Sometimes were lucky enough to stumble into fleeting friendships in unexpected places, but those can be the people who pull you through.
Sally Hoskins writes about one of those moments in her essay the Kindness and Xanax of strangers.
It's read by Leslie Manville.
Leslie stars in the new movie Ordinary Love.
There is no more cliched time to get a diagnosis of breast cancer than National Breast Cancer Awareness Month,
the 31 days of October when you can't make a move without seeing a pink ribbon, either the genuine article or its likeness in frosting or smoked salmon.
My diagnosis was particularly poorly timed, given that I had just written about having put my previous bout with breast cancer 15 years earlier behind me.
But at my annual mammogram two months before it was deja vu all over the x ray screen,
I had a fresh case in my previously unscathed breast.
The new occurrence was local, meaning no multiple surgeries, no chemotherapy.
This time, I had the very best form of breast cancer.
Way to go.
Still, the initial shock demanded its due.
I spent one night in despair, called a couple of close friends, then realized I didn't need to tell everyone