What I learned at 3 a.m. in a hospital bed after surgery

What I learned at 3 a.m. in a hospital bed after surgery

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Michael Morwood  |  Jun. 16, 2015

Until three weeks short of my 74th birthday, I had never spent a night in a hospital. Then along came prostate cancer.
A laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and some post-surgery complications gave me more than the usual number of nights in a hospital in Perth, Australia.
The Cancer Council Australia has many booklets available to people with cancer and to their families and friends. One of them, "Emotions and Cancer," encourages cancer bearers to "tap into spiritual beliefs."
"For some people," it says, "the experience of cancer challenges their beliefs."