seeing this was based on the realities of Ian's own journey with the diagnosis made total sense to me. because reading it felt so vividly real. it was horrid and hard. but it was hopeful and funny. it was tears jerking in all the right and worst of ways. and it was just such a privilege to be able to learn from a window into his own world.
to be honest i wanted his friendship group to be fiction. because erm what the!??? how horrid. and if this illness has taught Ian anything i hope its to make some new and better and actually more deserving of him friends.
im just thankful and in awe that Ian is still here because its a diagnosis that you think of being as death is imminent.
i think no matter the story it brave to put your own pieces of your story in there. and around illness it can be o helpful because it really does hit home all the more from having some personal insight into what the author is so emotionally writing of. and i think as a reader even in fiction you can hear if the author "knows" the subject.