She does reveal her illness to elderly neighbor Marlene (who later commits suicide), after Marlene figures it out since her dog, Thomas, who had been hanging around Cathy a lot, can sniff out cancer. Reluctant to burden her family and friends with the news, she keeps it a secret for months. Cathy is a Twin Cities-area ( Minneapolis–Saint Paul) high school teacher who, at the start of the series, has been recently diagnosed with terminal (stage IV) melanoma. As the show progresses, Cathy allows her family and some new friends to support her as she copes with her terminal prognosis, and finds both humor and pathos in the many idiosyncratic relationships in her life. She finds new freedom to express herself. At first she chooses to keep her diagnosis from her family, behaving in ways they find puzzling and increasingly bizarre. The realization of this forces her to really begin to live for the first time in her adult life. The show follows, in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area, Westhill High School teacher Cathy Jamison – a reserved, suburban wife and mother – who is diagnosed with melanoma. Main article: List of The Big C episodes Season
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