Tag: paula shadle

“Ask Me” – Paula J. Shadle, Ph.D.

I am constantly asked how I am, ever since the cancer diagnosis. Total strangers ask me  what kind or cancer I have, as if they have a need to know; and whether I am “OK” or “cured” … and, delicately, what my prognosis might be.  I dislike these questions intensely because they cross the usual…