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Re: Personal Stuff
« Reply #1560 on: May 26, 2021, 10:33:29 am »
A lot of my family on both sides has already been afflicted by cancer. Especially mom's side.  Now my little brother who is 34 years old.  Knowing what I know about my family history on both sides, I've known for a long time that it's more a matter of when, not if.  I know what's coming for me. I'm part way grateful knowing that I'm not going to live long enough to fall into dementia or similar. My little brother has cancer in his colon. For me, if it's not my colon it'll probably be my lady parts. Maybe my liver, that'd be karmic.

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A younger brother of mine died of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and our grandfather died of pancreatic cancer.  They're the only immediate family members I know of who've had cancer, I guess it's the susceptibility and predisposition that's passed on genetically but there must also be a certain randomness and luck good and bad involved so fingers crossed.  I've always figured the alien in my chest that I was born with, a bi-cuspid aortic valve, would take me out but it seems to have gone a little dormant the last few years, if anything I've been told to expect a sudden sharp pain in my chest and back as opposed to suddenly dropping dead so it could be worse. I guess for me its a matter of where as much as if or when.  I've trained all my deckhands on how to perform single-foot chest-compressions while steering the boat home.

Every mother in my grand-daughter's family died of lung cancer but they also all smoked like chimneys so. My daughter in-law is still alive but yeah she smokes like a chimney. 
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