Remission

Remission

Mini Roses.  Moire Sins. Rim Noises.  The preferred narrative of cancer.  “Are you in remission?” “Cancer always comes back.”  No one wants to hear about how you’re not in remission.  No one can bear to feel the dread that has become a part of your daily life.  But then you’re not dead yet and suddenly you need a way of explaining to people how they should think of you.  “I’m in remission.” It’s just easier to tell them this. It makes them partially forget that you have cancer. Or it makes the cancer not deadly (to them).