In my little Buzzy’s Country Store world of family and friends, there are currently several folks who are dealing with some very serious medical conditions. And by serious, I am talking the C word as in cancer wherein most of these close family and friends are undergoing some form of chemo treatment.
Earlier this week I took a “Get well” card, signed by many of my Buzzy patrons, to a good friend who is currently undergoing chemo. On my way back down the road, I thought about the whole cancer thing and why it continues to plague us like it does. Bottom line, it made me wonder why can’t we find a cure for this crap?
Later, on the google machine, I found that the answers to curing cancer seem to be all over the place. However, recent breakthroughs involving “precision oncology” offer some promising hopes. Also, the following article talks about some of the more recent advances in the cancer battle (click here.)
All that said however, we are still seeing roughly 2 million folks a year experiencing cancer. Also, I learned the following regarding rates of cancer-related deaths:
Saturday a week ago I had a couple stop in Buzzy’s after they had attended a memorial service at the Ridge KoC for my childhood friend Larry Joy. The couple were NAVSEA co-workers with Larry and informed me that he had just retired a year ago. Six months after retiring, Larry learned that he had pancreatic cancer and six months later died. Here Larry had worked all those years and then didn’t get any chance at all to enjoy his retirement. Another example of the unfairness and shortness of life,
But to leave you on a positive note here, I also learned that advances in the AI technology field hold much promise in the cancer battle (click here.) Until then, here’s hoping that all my family and friends can hang in there and fight the good fight while our research professionals are doing their thing finding a cancer cure. Hopefully, it won’t be long before they do so.
Melanie – gone. She was always the trivia answer to “Janis and Joan Baez were two of the three female solo performers at Woodstock, name the third one.” Yep, Ms. Roller Skate herself. You’ve heard “Brand New Key” enough, so check out this one from her: