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Disease and serious illness often strike randomly, and when they do, we quickly become subject to the impersonal forces of biochemistry and pharmacology. We rarely think about sickness beforehand and are often totally unprepared for it when it happens. Suddenly, there we are, subject to a standard treatment protocol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDarrel Moellendorf learned this by experience during a month confined to a solitary and sterile hospital room where he received a life-saving stem cell transplant. His room was somebody's workspace, his schedule was somebody's work routine, his immune system was systematically crushed, and his prognosis was out of his hands. There was no assurance that it would all work out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving spent thirty years teaching philosophy to college students, he was facing the biggest test of all—perhaps the final exam. These are his reflections before, during, and after his cancer treatment, written in real-time. 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