Better Off Bald: Episode 2 — Day 1

Working in an ER is supposed to consist of broken bones, chest pains, deep cuts, maybe an occasional gunshot wound. I believe he has never given this kind of news before.

Dr. Lin glances at Adrienne, but then turns to me.

“She has tumors in her liver and lungs.”

Adrienne celebrating her 15th birthday by attending the Rocky Horror Picture Show © April 2001 (one month before diagnosis)

Better Off Bald chronicles my sister Adrienne’s 147-day battle with liver cancer; the book also shows how I reared Adrienne from the time she was eight until she died at the age of fifteen. For more information about primary liver cancer, go to Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association.