Even tho' it ain't even cold, it looks like it ought'a be....but, that's NorCal for ya........temp is gunna be in the 70's today...they say if you c'n remember the 70's, you weren't really there.....thanks be to a higher power, I have spotty mem'ries of the 40's. 50's,6o's,70's & 80's, 90's and the 21st Cent as well.....and all w/out the use of recreational drugs......that is if you don't count the whisky, gin, vodka, tequila, various and sundry beers and ales and the lunch and dinner wines.....that stuff does tend to fog a body's brain just a bit......
WARNING: from here on out the rest of the stuff is just me venting about cancer stuff!
I ain't even going to try to tell ya the names of all the stuff they're shootin' me with today.....#1, since I can't remember 'em all, I'd have to transcribe 'em from a list and that means I'd have to compile a list....it's difficult enow just to count 'em out every day and then swallow 'em.....and that's not counting the ones they stick in my arm in the Chemo Room altho I do have a list of them as well.....Still, I don't take as many as some do and I'm not having any radiation.....I have my hair shorter now than I have for years but I'm just preparing for when it falls out;
I've met a lot of bald-headed people and most of 'em got it worse than me but they're all hopeful either of a cure or remission. For the most part, everyone seems to have a positive attitude and all the Dr's & nurses I've met seem to be wonderfully patient and caring people.
And I've yet to meet anyone who seems to feel that the Lord has a p'ticklar & personal bias 'gainst them tho' I feel that someone, somewhere, must feel that way.
Cancer comes in odd ways. Sometimes you c'n pinpoint what caused it in a p'ticklar case but most often you're just left to wonder about it.
My Dad died from Mesothelioma. That's lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. He smoked when he was younger; cigarettes, cigars, and he chewed tobacco for a long time but it was the asbestos that got him.
I smoked pretty heavily for about 35 years and I have Hodgkins Lymphoma. 'Course that doesn't mean that if I live long enuff, I c'd still come down with lung Cancer.....fearsome thing, Cancer. Sneaky. Lies in wait for years then kills you off before you get the chance to die from old age.
Of course, people don 't really die from old age. They die from complications of old age. The complications being that you get sick from other causes and you're too old and too tired or maybe just too damn cantankerous to fight 'em off.
Anyway, that's enuff for one day. The dogs want'a go for a walk.........Later, David
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