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Brain Tumor Support Group Every Second Tuesday of the Month Room 4003, 7 to 9 pm
I was afraid to hang up the posters. I thought the neurologists, my teachers, would laugh. “What do you think you’re doing?” they would say. “You don’t know a thing about brain tumors! Sometimes you’re not even sure your patient has a Babinski sign.” (That would be true.)
I hung up the posters. The local newspaper carried a small ad. The neurologists didn’t laugh; they said nothing.
The group meets as planned. Few others know we’re there.
I have just turned 23, but I am about to finish medical school in my hometown, Saskatoon. It has been a trying experience in many ways: friends my age who are not studying medicine frolic by the lake. I can describe the embryogenesis of the places where their bodies are pierced. They watch the latest videos. I owe the library money for overdue journals. They put in their contacts and hunt for new places to go clubbing and swish beer. I push my glasses back up the bridge of my nose and review the location of the tuber cinereum. When someone asks me what I do in my spare time, saying I run a brain tumor support group doesn’t make me the life of the party. I get a polite “hmmm,” and the conversation stops.
For someone my age, the biggest event may be deciding between Pepsi and Coke. I sometimes wished I could keep it that way but that was before I met Sharon, Mike, Tom and …
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