Tuesday April 2 nd, 2024…9am…Chemotherapy for the 6 th and last time if I’m truly lucky…This session, an insurance policy my oncologist calls it, followed by a critical Pet Scan on May 16 th, could prove to be the end of a journey we all fear taking, starting with the dreaded words, I’m sorry, but you have Cancer…The potency of those words, the internalized shock and horror, the why me , why now’s of it all…It can happen to anyone…My non Hodkins Lymphoma was a fast developing lymph system attacking, thoroughly exhausting experience where my exploded tonsils made eating solid food extremely difficult, and my weight plummeted to the low 150s..Life and death, Hospitalization and nurses, Doctors and opinions, the looks in the mirror each day that tell a story of decline and potential rebirth, actualized in the medications and appetite for life itself, critical to finding the will, and willingness to see yourself back to health and wellness, back to the condition we think of as normal , back to basics and what is basically survival, fittest or unfittest with outcome the judge…I got lucky…I’m afflicted by a disease where medical science has proven to be on point and extremely effective…My tonsils returned to normal 18 hours after my first chemo treatment…Weak as a baby, I then returned home after 17 days in the hospital and began the slow crawl back to regaining my strength, with treatments every 21 days , and a Pet Scan after 4 sessions…My Pet Scan showed the Cancer was gone…A miracle, no, just Science in Action…Man over the beast of Cancer, and now I weighed 167 this morning eating like a horse and smoking a little beloved Mota to keep appetite alive and kicking…I’m blessed…With lovely family, many friends, a constant flow of good thoughts and prayers, and even singing again which is a constant joy…I can say without reservation that I feel like the luckiest man in the world, right place, right time, not what anyone would ever want, but we really never know…Carry on all in the positive…Carry on all in the best you can be…For as sure as the sun rises, sets, and nightfall brings the peacefulness of rest, none of us knows what happens next, my hopes and best wishes reach out to you all…