Adrienne looks at the four of us with a determined gleam. “I’d rather be dead than deaf.”
I want to strangle her. She would rather be dead than deaf?

Consent for Chemotherapy with Adrienne’s signature © May 22, 2001

Better Off Bald chronicles my sister Adrienne’s 147-day battle with liver cancer; the book also shows how I reared Adrienne from the time she was eight until she died at the age of fifteen. For more information about primary liver cancer, go to Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association.