Between Living and Dying: Reflections from the edge of experience, by Ruth Scott

25 Nov 2021 | by Valerie Clarke

Author: Ruth Scott. Review by Valerie Clarke.

'Ruth’s hopes for survival were not to be, but this is not an unhappy or morbid book.' | Photo: Book cover of Between Living and Dying: Reflections from the edge of experience, by Ruth Scott

I bought this book because I wanted to compare the author’s experience of lymphoma with my own. Ruth Scott was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Non Hodgkin’s in 2017, and I was told in 2004 that I have an indolent, slow-growing one. We both had a stem cell transplant: she received her own cells back while I got mine from two umbilical cords.

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