For a few seconds when I wake, I forget, I forget about the cancer, the death sentence, and everything is alright. For a few precious seconds it"s all okay. And then I remember. I try to go back to sleep, just to have those few seconds again, but I can"t, not until the next morning, a morning closer to the day it will actually beat me and win. For a few seconds when I wake, I forget, I forget about the cancer, the death sentence, and everything is alright. For a few precious seconds it"s all okay. And then I remember. I try to go back to sleep, just to have those few seconds again, but I can"t, not until the next morning, a morning closer to the day it will actually beat me and win.Ellie remembered those words clearly, the words of her gran, spoken to her mother from the hospice bed where

