I hired the best oncologist in the state and then, unsatisfied, flew in a second opinion from across the country.

I retained private nurses around the clock.

I brought in nutritionists and pain specialists and a medical coordinator whose only job was to manage the other specialists.

I had the east wing of the house refitted with equipment that would not have been out of place in a hospital.

Whatever she needed, I bought.

Whatever the doctors suggested, I approved before they had finished the sentence.

When they named a treatment that was not available in the country, I made calls, and it became available.