'Stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor: Five simple lessons for how I’ve learned to live in the present'
By Chris Seiple April 4 at 6:00 AM I’ve got a gnarly scar on the back of my head, and my five kids think Dad’s haircut is hip. Last month, I survived my third surgery for melanoma. This time, it was a brain tumor, stage 4.
We live in a permanent state of present, between the “already” of stage 4 and the “not yet” of the immunotherapy results. Since a bout with cancer three years ago, I have learned five lessons that might help others going through it.When I was in advanced infantry training with the Marine Corps in 1991, John R. Allen, now president of the Brookings Institution, shared a keen insight with us second lieutenants who believed we were invincible.
Perhaps most meaningful were the flowers from my students. My brain surgery took place in the middle of teaching a cross-cultural religious literacy graduate course at the University of Washington. While my students spanned the theological and political spectrum, they cared enough, as a group, to send flowers to a professor they barely knew.
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