In the opening chapter, Syd’s sister Kay, author of autobiographical memoir Losing You, Finding Me, reads his latest scan report: ”’Well, its not good news’, I said laughing – trying desperately to make light of the situation”, she writes. His cancer had spread to his liver, spine, lymph nodes, lungs, and bones. Having steadfastly held on to her beliefs: that cancer can go away, cancer specialists will know what to do, there will be someone somewhere who knows about this cancer—neuroendocrine carcinoma of the thymus—because people do get better, at this moment she knew he was not going to recover.