Living with colon cancer: beating the odds

June 1996: becoming a patient

July 1996: diagnosis

Settling in

Coming home

Stella the stoma

Fires of transformation

Ebbing power

Perilous waters

If the bed has no rock, the river has no song

Fading strength

Spring 1997: ciao Stella!

No exit

Hanging on

The inward journey

Slipping from wellness

Cutting fruit

Breathing the pain

Redefining normal

Epilogue: letting go.