Hello Fellow Travelers!
Well, it finally happened. A real news item intersected with Brain Cancer and now it's blowing up all over the world and everyone is asking me what I think and would I do the same. Death, The big "dirt nap". Only time is as inescapable. Brittany Maynard is a lovely 29 year old who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and has chosen to die on her own terms in Oregon, where it is not against the law to plan your own death. She was faced with a grim oh-so-short future and she made a decision. Would I make a similar choice? Frankly, no, but I have been in many ways greatly improved and tested, by my tumor and feel like nothing can stop me! I would know to leave her alone
My world was forever reshaped by cancer. Remember "All t\he King's Horse's and All the King's Men"? Well, they couldn't put old Humpty back together (and just what EMT Training did these equines and representatives of the Crown have, anyway? I always ask when I'm scrambled next to fencing. Is it too much to ask for a second opinion? Some Tobasco would be nice!)
Now all kidding aside Travelers I don't waste a millesecond lamenting about drama, medical or personal. It's like plastic surgery it sounds like a good idea but ultimately it will not only not improve a situation but plastic surgery could generate it's own set of problems.
I always start off with the same salutation, "Hello Fellow Travelers!" Because we're all travelers on the big journey called, "life"! Everyone has their own path to navigate, I respect that. My journey is still unfolding. I can't imagine the couple who moves out of their state to have access to better Health Options. But, this is from a woman who is mostly silent.
This is my journey and mine alone. I have never felt more alive, (Thank You! HA!) I'm ready to take as many MRI's as they need (Thank you! Dr. Phoenix!) and I'll never stop looking for answers. This is the time. "Death with Dignity"? (What does that even mean? Because the last time I checked, "Death" was still, oh, I don't know, dead.) And to quote Charlie Brown-San in "Kill Bill #1","No, I don't think I'd like that!"
CB might be the master of the subtitled understatement, but it's my opinion of a great many things. Like the void of neat stuff to buy past the age of 40. It's as though after 45 all marketing dwindles to a upright bathtubs and little scooters that go very slowly.
To use another great quote, "This simply won't do!", Hannibal Lecter, "Silence of the Lambs" So get me some cookies and a big pot of coffee it's going to be a long night!
In the crazy, spinning world I live in, feeling terrific gives me the strength to face the "the big issues" I deal with, daily. Cookies help too!
Well, it finally happened. A real news item intersected with Brain Cancer and now it's blowing up all over the world and everyone is asking me what I think and would I do the same. Death, The big "dirt nap". Only time is as inescapable. Brittany Maynard is a lovely 29 year old who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and has chosen to die on her own terms in Oregon, where it is not against the law to plan your own death. She was faced with a grim oh-so-short future and she made a decision. Would I make a similar choice? Frankly, no, but I have been in many ways greatly improved and tested, by my tumor and feel like nothing can stop me! I would know to leave her alone
My world was forever reshaped by cancer. Remember "All t\he King's Horse's and All the King's Men"? Well, they couldn't put old Humpty back together (and just what EMT Training did these equines and representatives of the Crown have, anyway? I always ask when I'm scrambled next to fencing. Is it too much to ask for a second opinion? Some Tobasco would be nice!)
Now all kidding aside Travelers I don't waste a millesecond lamenting about drama, medical or personal. It's like plastic surgery it sounds like a good idea but ultimately it will not only not improve a situation but plastic surgery could generate it's own set of problems.
I always start off with the same salutation, "Hello Fellow Travelers!" Because we're all travelers on the big journey called, "life"! Everyone has their own path to navigate, I respect that. My journey is still unfolding. I can't imagine the couple who moves out of their state to have access to better Health Options. But, this is from a woman who is mostly silent.
This is my journey and mine alone. I have never felt more alive, (Thank You! HA!) I'm ready to take as many MRI's as they need (Thank you! Dr. Phoenix!) and I'll never stop looking for answers. This is the time. "Death with Dignity"? (What does that even mean? Because the last time I checked, "Death" was still, oh, I don't know, dead.) And to quote Charlie Brown-San in "Kill Bill #1","No, I don't think I'd like that!"
CB might be the master of the subtitled understatement, but it's my opinion of a great many things. Like the void of neat stuff to buy past the age of 40. It's as though after 45 all marketing dwindles to a upright bathtubs and little scooters that go very slowly.
To use another great quote, "This simply won't do!", Hannibal Lecter, "Silence of the Lambs" So get me some cookies and a big pot of coffee it's going to be a long night!
In the crazy, spinning world I live in, feeling terrific gives me the strength to face the "the big issues" I deal with, daily. Cookies help too!
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