When my mother found out she had myelodysplastic syndrome, the terrible blood cancer that eventually took her life, she oscillated between numb despair and acute panic.

• 当我的母亲发现了她患有骨髓增生异常综合征时,这意味着她的后半生将与可怕的血癌做斗争时，她在麻木绝望和深刻恐慌中动摇。