This will probably be the last four years ago today post for the year. And probably will not mark anniversaries of this nature too many more times. No, not because I plan of shuffling off this mortal coil at any time in the near future. But because I think I have hit all the big dates at least once during this last year or so since my first blog post. A bit more on the mortal coil in a moment.
But four years ago today was the first surgery. A lot of my abdomen went MIA that day. The above is part of what was relocated to places outside my body😀The cancer seemed to have grown quickly in a couple of weeks. And pathology later showed it was in the lymph nodes. About half. Not a good thing and in retrospect it did not turn out that well with me being where I am right now.
I probably posted this before, but people with my cancer have a five year survival rate of about 10%. Yup, that means that 90% of people are gone within 5 years. And the events of the last year did not give me the warm fuzzy feeling of getting into that 10% section. But the stats are skewed. There is a difference of a few years when looking back - and perhaps changes in the last few years make the rates better. The rates also include all patients. Including people who may be older than more, with other health conditions and various other factors, such as not being able to tolerate chemotherapy as well or being able to have surgery.
So I try to think of that more. There are days where triathlon training is a bit harder. But knowing that triathlon training is keeping me going makes training a bit easier. Getting faster is a cool concept. Staying alive as long as possible is a better one. Plus I do like the medals and t-shirts a lot 😀Which I why there is a race next month. Back to Las Olas!!! My first triathlon - three months aftrt I started training after my cancer came back.
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