Like Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen), Finch is a person who lives with cancer.
How hurtful it is, how destructive it can be to someone with cancer.
Because what is winning?
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Does that mean someone who died of cancer just didnt fight hard enough?
She asked me if Id consider writing a story similar to my own, of someone living with cancer.
Most stories about cancer, the person is either dead or cured.
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There is no in-between.
But I live in the in-between.
What was the situation with your cancer?
I receive treatment and frequent scans to verify it doesnt grow.
I am a person living with cancer, and that may never change.
And medical advances happen all the time, so I cant predict the future.
And now that Im saying that,howis it the first time??
I am 99.99999999999 percent sure we havent.
That said, I amhappyto be proven wrong by any of our amazing fans.
Was the plan always to package Catherines surgery with Thatchers death?
I was also really interested in presenting two very different realities of cancer.
Both Catherine and Thatcher followed doctors orders, took their medicine.
Theres no winning or losing, just living and dying.
And Thatcher didnt perpetuate the belief that a good cancer patient fights until the bitter end.
I was interested in showing a different narrative.
Why did you make this a stand-alone episode?
Meredith and Thatcher have so much history, so much ground to cover.
And we knew Catherines surgery was going to be huge.
We wanted to really take our time with both storylines.
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