Listen: High Risk
On the latest episode of the Social Distance podcast, staff writer Caitlin Flanagan talks with James Hamblin and Katherine Wells about coming to terms with the pandemic after living with cancer for 17 years.
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
James Hamblin: What have you been thinking about as the stay-at-home orders have come in?
I’ve been in a sort of particular situation: I have Stage IV cancer, and I was first diagnosed 17 years ago. It’s an incredibly long time to be alive and well, given that it was a very aggressive form of cancer. When I first got diagnosed 17 years ago, we were just so shocked. I was 40. I had twins. They were
