Thank all for your kind words.
I've had a slightly rough week (bone pain and fatigue combined with being hyper plus insomnia); however, my rough week is relative. The stories that I hear from other cancer patients make my tale look like a walk in the park. I am truly humbled by the courage shown by some of the people that I meet and hear about.
Someone told me that, whilst God may chuck bad stuff at one, at the same time he makes one strong enough to deal with it. It may sound strange, but , right at this moment, I am truly happy; and it's quite easy to be strong when one is happy!
Lorra, good luck and I hope that everything goes according to plan and that your prognosis is good. FYI I find I get huge amounts of well-meaning advice from friendsand some of it is slightly whacky. I wouldn't even take vitamin pills without clearing it with my doctor. Yeah, let's do London 2009.
To all you runners, I am convinced the relatively easy time (mentally and physically) that I'm having is partly due to my running. Running makes you fit; running makes you mentally strong.
And for the slower runners,
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
