High Risk

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Caitlin Flanagan on navigating Stage IV cancer during a pandemic. Read her story in The Atlantic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Catherine.
0:04.4	Hey, hey, how you doing?
0:06.4	Hey.
0:07.8	Hey, how you doing?
0:11.5	I'm tired. Oh no. Did you not sleep? I did sleep. Oh, right. You know what I got up at 5.30 and then I went on a walk and like I'm worn out because I haven't been walking.
0:24.6	Oh.
0:25.2	I went on like an hour long walk and I'm pooped.
0:29.4	We need to get you walking more.
0:30.9	That's a great time of the morning to walk though.
0:33.2	Right.
0:34.2	Wandering lonely as a cloud.
0:37.4	What?
0:38.8	Nothing, it's just a literary reference.
0:41.6	What is up with the literary references now?
0:44.0	You're some sort of Wordsmith now?
0:47.0	Hmm.
0:49.0	You said it, not me.
0:51.0	In any case, um... So Jim, one of the things that you have been talking about and that I haven't even been able to think about is the fact that like coronavirus is a major problem but all other crises are still happening.
1:08.0	Yes. Like the other problems didn't go away. Yeah, we're going to see a surgeon, people needing, you know, this kind of backlog of things
1:18.4	that have been pushed.
1:20.0	You know, a hospital is not an ideal place for a chronically ill person to venture to right now.
1:29.0	So I've been thinking about that and wondering about what that experience is like and
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