The Council of Dads
Author Bruce Feiler
shares his “lost year” in which he struggles to live through a rare and deadly form of bone cancer. A full years lost from diagnosis by his doctor who noticed something unusual in one of his tests, months of chemotherapy, followed by extensive surgery and rehabilitation, followed again by chemo was his lost year.
His lost year is his personal story of how he faces the fact that should cancer win, his twin three year old daughters are unlikely to remember him.
“Cancer, I have found, is a passport to intimacy. It’s an invitation – maybe even a mandate – to enter the most vital, frightening, and sensitive human arenas.”