Longevity.
I’ve heard that every 7 years, each cell in your body has been replaced. The physical bits of you that were here 7 years ago aren’t here now. For the sake of cosmic romance, I’ll skip the asterisks and echoing chasms of a tidy little statement and indulge…. We’re approaching 7 years since my diagnosis. I’ve said for the great majority of those years that if life could run parallel with cancer, I’d be incredibly happy and we could consider that victory. The reality with sarcomas is they’re very rare, so to have a rare type of of a rare type of cancer has added an extra layer bushwhack health care that, while working acceptably and gratefully well, can feel a bit like chasing marathon finishes over and over. And over. As long as I keep going, I can keep going, but sometimes, the idea of sitting down in the shade for a minute and having a chocolate milk and a glop of peanut butter sounds nothing beneath heavenly. Choosing parallel success meant choosing management not ...