'Everything that normally kept the day going was reduced to almost zero. I couldn’t think'
The popular writer was in Los Angeles when he realised one of his testicles was swollen and painful.
Writing in the London Review of Books, he said a diagnosis came soon after and his right testicle had to be removed. He said: “The Juice was neither cold nor hot. It caused no pain. I wondered if all the talk about it wasn’t exaggerated. Instead of shaking all over, I read the newspapers. I listened to the radio.
“It was not merely that the chemo left me fully thoughtless so that as time went on I could not even read; the effect of the drug darkened the mind or filled it with something hard and severe and relentless.
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