When Cancer Becomes Terminal, The Meaning of Hope Changes

Jacqueline Dooley
6 min readOct 29, 2019
Photo by Jacqueline Dooley

My daughter lived with cancer for over four years. Diagnosed at 11, she weathered the storm of puberty and her changing body under the oppression of her illness. In April of 2016, she had a very bad scan.

She learned that her cancer was growing, with new tumors appearing in her abdomen, pelvis, bowel and lungs.

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Jacqueline Dooley

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss