Why do people ask the obvious questions: "how are you" or "what is wrong" like I just read in the cancer story of "bomb in my belly"…
Having a metastatic liver cancer, I answer "humanly"
First time I was diagnosed and was asked "how are you", I didn’t answer. I mean, what to answer? It’s obvius i am not happy with this verdict, am I? If you see me in bed the whole day, isn’t it be obvious that something is utterly wrong?
Yet, by saying nothing, I noticed that my silence breaks the conversation. It is not all about me and my cancer, Dick, Tom and Harry – which I never see – I can’t be bothered too much. But the people I love, I do want them to talk to me. There won’t be any quality of life without them, no matter how much hospice or palliative care you can get.
So I formulated an answer to keep the conversation going. I feel "humanly". For those who are regular Animal Planet TV-watchers, the popular ASPCA "police squad" episodes, they can figure out which popular sentence in the series I am referring to – that one where animals get killed humanely… –