It's a terrifying experience having to wait around for results. You hope for the best, yet think of worst at the same time. What's to be done but sit and wait and look at the depressing but also supporting magazines, wall decorations, and music. It sets the tone for what your about to get yourself into.
The waiting game. The disappointment that comes with it. Aggravation starts to set in. Your mind is racing a mile a minute of others things that you have to get done, but your stuck sitting and waiting. When your able to leave you have the worst news and everything flees your mind and the only things stuck in it is Cancer.
In "Welcome to Cancerland" by Barbra Ehrenreich, she starts off with the same scenario. When the doctors let her leave the office she is not in the same state of mind as she was when she entered the office. This time instead of going over her list of to do things she is thinking about the one word Cancer.
Ehrenreich makes it less of a personal essay and more of an informative one. Her main focus is about the pink ribbon and teddy bears and how they represent the fight of chemotherapy and the life of breast cancer patients.
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