539 Days

Andrea Lingle
3 min readAug 11, 2023

A Recorded Tale of Not Letting Breast Cancer Win

Photo by Niki Leander on Unsplash

I win.

Two words forced through the white-edged glare of propofol. The nurse who was sitting to my right looked up from her charting to ask me what I had said, but I didn’t bother repeating myself. I hadn’t been talking to her. If I was talking to anything, I was talking to the ceiling tiles uncentered over my bed.

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Andrea Lingle

Writer, lay-theologian, newbie-philosopher. Author of Credulous and Into a Reluctant Sunrise. www.andrealingle.com