Trick of the mind that means you really CAN think yourself ill

It’s autumn, and outside the ochre leaves of the silver birch are falling to the ground like confetti. I’m sitting at my desk, staring at my laptop.

I am making progress. For the first time since my diagnosis, I have managed to type the name of my cancer and the word ‘prognosis’ into a search engine. Now I’m trying to work out if I should hit the return key.

There’s a fork in the road. Ahead of me lie two possible futures. In the first, I decide not to press the button. I channel my inner ostrich: what I don’t know can’t

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