{"title":"The value of a little extra time","authors":"Chris Bennett","doi":"10.1136/bmj.q2862","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Chris Bennett shares her thoughts about the year she and her husband had together after he was found to have a brain tumour Today my husband wrote me a love letter. Well, if I'm honest, I'm not certain it is a love letter, but I think I can read a couple of “darlings” amongst the scrawly bits I can't quite make out. He has certainly signed his name at the bottom, and when I asked him if the other words were “darling” he grinned that marvellous grin which, over our past 25 years, has always meant everything was just great. The lines of scribble start at the very topmost edge of the paper, as if they are almost falling off, presumably an effect of the hemianopia we were told to expect if he …","PeriodicalId":22388,"journal":{"name":"The BMJ","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The BMJ","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2862","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chris Bennett shares her thoughts about the year she and her husband had together after he was found to have a brain tumour Today my husband wrote me a love letter. Well, if I'm honest, I'm not certain it is a love letter, but I think I can read a couple of “darlings” amongst the scrawly bits I can't quite make out. He has certainly signed his name at the bottom, and when I asked him if the other words were “darling” he grinned that marvellous grin which, over our past 25 years, has always meant everything was just great. The lines of scribble start at the very topmost edge of the paper, as if they are almost falling off, presumably an effect of the hemianopia we were told to expect if he …