Two weeks had passed, during which Arthur had been preparing to return to treatment. This involved taking vitamins to help his body withstand the initial doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and following an even stricter potassium-based diet to aid in coping with the combined therapy.
I had spoken with Arthur's nurse so she could attend to him again once the treatment began because, from what I had been researching, the side effects of cancer were more aggressive than the disease itself. Although I was more than willing to help him, Arthur insisted that he didn't want me to see what happened after a dose of chemotherapy. It hurt me a lot to hear that.
—Take a deep breath, Mr. Sallow—said Dr. Bailey, the oncologist specialized in Arthur's type of cancer. She was listening to his lungs
