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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 10 -2- The hepatitus is gone. The fever is gone. They have re-scheduled my operation for next week. I am scared. I try not to think of this - thing - crawling, multiplying, penetrating blood and lymph streams to my lungs or brain. "Normal cells stick to each other - a kidney cell stays in the kidney where it belongs, and a lung cell stays in the lung. But cancer cells have no home," Doctor Sontag had once said. "Melanoma cells tend to become rapidly invasive. Theoretically the change is reversible, but at the present time we just don't know how." Don't know how. Why the hell not? They can send men to the moon, they can measure the vibration of molecules, they can measure time to the ten trillionth of a trillionth of a second, |