Denial of the disease (the first stage in the Kubler-Ross model) was very long for me.

Even though I was on the verge of death, I did not treat myself as a person prone to death! I just denied my condition for a very long time.

In this picture, I get a vein infusion from a Chinese nurse with a gold hand. I still did not understand the severity of my condition. It is also not customary in Chinese culture to tell a patient, especially a foreigner, that his illness is severe!