Jax“I’m not doing it, Jax! And I’m done talking about it!” Stella yells.
She storms past me, holding a towel around her body. Grasping her towel in one hand, she uses the other to sort through her dresser drawer. She faces away from me as water droplets fall from her damp hair, rolling down her back until the towel absorbs them.
“Stella, please,” I plead. “Just try it. It might make a difference. Don’t give up.”
To put it mildly, things have been stressful lately. According to the scans, the cancer is growing. The protein therapies that Stella has been on don’t seem to be slowing its growth any longer. Stella has also been experiencing more side effects from both the cancer and now the new medicines that she’s been taking to combat those side effects.
Stella’s health has changed a lot
