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Skala: The call I'll never forget: 'You have cancer.'
I lay very still listening as throbs and bangs and cracks ping-ponged into that high-tech cocoon into which I was hermetically sealed. I’d asked for folk music on the headphones to get me through this MRI, but they’d programmed country music instead. As “ …