Legion (the swollen lymph nodes and maybe a couple of other masses in my neck/chest, probably lymphoma, which gives me a very good prognosis as far as cancer goes),
Can we work a deal here? I will continue to let you stay if you will greatly lighten the amount of energy you take. You really don’t need all that energy to keep growing and spreading, you’re fine the way you are now (though I’d appreciate it if you’d just move a tiny bit over to the right on the right side of my neck/chest so you aren’t pressing against our friend Trachea, making its job more difficult, and just being very uncomfortable). Really, you look great, you don’t need to expand any more. And you’ve really shown Lymph Nodes who’s boss, I think they get the idea now. So can’t we just peacefully co-exist? I must warn you, if you do not accept these terms, I will have no choice but to send in the Chemotherapy team to evict you, and they will not be anywhere near as nice about it as I’m being (or as careful about damaging their surroundings, if that matters to you). You know, you’ve been working very hard recently, and I think you’ve earned a little rest - and once you try it, you might even find that you like it, which would work very well for us, don’t you think?
Nearing the final warning,
Your host
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"