“You have a better chance of winning the lottery than you do of having this cancer,” my doctor said as he read over my x-ray results. “And besides, this type of bone cancer is only diagnosed in seniors.” Those words were meant to reassure me. And he was right. Only six people across Canada were diagnosed with the same bone cancer as me that year, and every single one of them was an old fart. I have since become an avid lottery player. In the medical community, my doctor’s attitude wasn’t the exception, it was the rule. Because of my […]