>>909354OP here. Yes, that's me. I'll post a list of other threads at the end if that's ok.
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On Bill's diagnosis
>"It was hard to describe what was bothering him - it was a presence, again, but worse this time, a swelling in his stomach. [...] Upon examining Bill, Donovan detected a mass and immediately sent him for ultrasound [...] They decided to let Bill sleep. A few hours later he woke up, the sun streaming in through his window, and saw Colleen tentatively put her head around the door. She walked in, followed by Dr Donovan, and sat down next to Bill on his bed. [...] He had late stage pancreatic cancer, one of the most furtive lethal cancers, and it had spread to his liver. Bill shifted around around in his bedsheets, squirming, trying to absorb what the doctor was telling him."__________
On Bill reminiscing during chemotherapy treatment
>"Most nights that summer, Bill and [his agent] Colleen took long walks along the oceanside Flagler Driver and sat on the sea wall watching the waves. He couldn't stop talking. He told her how alienated he he'd felt as a child and that for many years all he'd felt was anger and pain. He wanted to let go of all of that, try to feel more joy. [...] 'He would just talk about everything and cry and ask me questions about my life,' Colleen said, 'and could I relate to any of this and how come I wasn't fucked up or a drug addict. We would have the deepest conversations I've ever had with anyone, really. But the anguist Bill carried around blew my mind.'"__________
On Bill's fightback against his cancer
>"For five days the two brothers drove across the Southwest, having a ball together. [...] Bill's spirits continued to soar. His tumor seemed to be shrinking drastically. The doctors used tumor markers to measure the size of a tumor and, four times in a row, Bill's had shrunk."__________
