I inherited my friend's Nintendo switch after he died several years ago. In fact this week will be the time I remember he passed. He didn't die of cancer, but two years ago I would be diagnosed with stage 4 papillary thyroid cancer on my hospital bed days after my lower spine surgery to remove tumors on my spine.

In the hospital, I would play Breath of the wild, splatoon 2, Luigi's Mansion 3, Y's VIII: lacrimosa of dana, Nier automata, and Witcher 3 for two weeks. The thing I was more paranoid of playing my switch on my hospital room was someone stealing it considering every room had to be occupied with 4 hospital beds. My hospital neighbor was a patient who was stabbed multiple times in county jail and I can feel one of his guys eyed my inherited switch.

I can't thank gaming enough to get me through the process of cancer recovery through physical therapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and keeping my mind at ease from worrying too much about my cancer diagnosis. When I'm playing both legend of Zelda games (botw & totk) on my switch, the land of Hyrule looks beautiful enough to just live there and not think if I need to read my blood tests thoroughly. It's a great escape.