We watch lots of movies at home. Corinne chooses them. A few weeks after the diagnosis, we settled in to see the latest DVD that had arrived in the mail. Since it was named "Wit," I thought it might be an interesting comedy. To my horror, it began with a bald-headed woman in a baseball cap. During Linda's two years with cancer, I had learned that movies with this image were usually a bummer: with a story line that ends in the heroine's death.

"Wit" was a delightfully honest movie about the ordeal, even though it ended as I had expected it would. One of the images that stuck with us was of the straight-laced, generally humorless heroine sticking out her tongue at her doctor.