Thursday, May 28, 2009

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

I guess it's time I talked about time-my time. After ending treatment at the end of March all my oncologist had to say about the matter was, "remember how fast your tumor grew back after the first surgery" (it was about 3 months). So I did some research online and found these stats-for 20-35 yr olds treated at UCLA median survival was 960 days, I am on day 574 (not treated at UCLA); for all patients under 50 treated with standard of care the median sutvival was 19 months (month 19 ends in a week); and the average survival for patients under 50 treated with standard of care was 17 months. I have had a little more than the standard (5 months of Avastin). Draw your own conclusions.
Also I recently researched Clare Torry's career-she gave what I consider to be one of the finest female vocal performances of all time on The Great Gig in the Sky on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon-which consequantly is the #3 best selling album worlwide of all time and spent a record setting 714 weeks on Billboard's top 200. I was even more amazed that Torry did the recording in one take and was a mere cover singer-amazing. The phrase "I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying, there's no reason for it..." is spoken at the beginning of the track by Gerry O'Driscoll (the doorman at Abbey Road where the album was recorded). This phrase brings great comfort to me as it reminds me that there is no reason for me to fear death. I will be rockin' in the bosom of Abraham while the rest of you suckers continue to slog through life. The afterlife should not trouble any Christian, especially one with the extra knowledge I've been blessed with through God's prophets in this era. Thank you Mr. O'Driscoll.

2 comments:

Marc said...

Puls,

If you could do me a favor and put in a good word for me in Heaven, I think there might be some rumors flying around and I would apprecaite if you could clear them up.

The Chad said...

Over Christmas I watched the Wizard of Oz with the Dark Side of the Moon on. It was pretty much amazing. And remember Lazer Floyd? That was awesome too.