I had 2 great titles for my post today, and as you can see I couldn't decide which one to use. But fear not, I will deal with them separately.
First off, on getting better. I went to the clinic today for my regular checkup. It goes like this.
Open wide.
Say aaaah.
Tongue left.
Tongue right.
Deep breath.
Say eeeeh. (while he tries to yank your tongue out)
Okay. You're good. See you in 6 months.
Okay but I had one question for him first. Having kept up via the Internet as to the medical communities attitude towards HPV related head and neck cancers, I am aware of 2 things. First off, that they can now differentiate between this type of cancer and the previously more common types caused by alcohol and tobacco, and secondly that they now know they can treat them differently. Quite frankly it seems that the fact that HPV is such an aggressive type, also means that treatment is more effective. So I asked him if in light of this, had they changed the protocol. He told me not yet but that they were studying it, and get this.....they believe that they will be able to lower the radiation dosage, and eliminate the chemotherapy!!!! Probably within a couple of years. Wow!!! Not a wonder I got better!
Do I have any regrets that if they knew more at the time I would not be so beat up now. Absolutely not! Think about it. The radiation prevents me from eating potato chips, and the chemo prevents me from hearing my wife. (just kiddin babe) Life is good.
But the 'shut up' part of todays inspiration actually came before my checkup, in actual fact on the way to the hospital. And it was directed at me! I came out of the pool this morning after 120 lengths (3kms), bemoaning how long it took me. And then I realized that just last night I wrote a whole freakin post on just this topic, a post that Elly liked no less, and here I was doing the same stupid thing. So I said to myself.
"Just shut the fuck up! Do the workouts that you know you need to do, stop timing every one of them, and shut the fuck up! It will all work out or it won't. No one freakin cares that you would like to have been 2 1/2 minutes faster. Shut the fuck up" Okay. Thanks!
I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. Long run day. Talk to you then.
(swim 3000 metres, 57:25)
"Never miss a chance to shut up."---Will Rogers
"If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it"---Tom Lehrer
First off, on getting better. I went to the clinic today for my regular checkup. It goes like this.
Open wide.
Say aaaah.
Tongue left.
Tongue right.
Deep breath.
Say eeeeh. (while he tries to yank your tongue out)
Okay. You're good. See you in 6 months.
Okay but I had one question for him first. Having kept up via the Internet as to the medical communities attitude towards HPV related head and neck cancers, I am aware of 2 things. First off, that they can now differentiate between this type of cancer and the previously more common types caused by alcohol and tobacco, and secondly that they now know they can treat them differently. Quite frankly it seems that the fact that HPV is such an aggressive type, also means that treatment is more effective. So I asked him if in light of this, had they changed the protocol. He told me not yet but that they were studying it, and get this.....they believe that they will be able to lower the radiation dosage, and eliminate the chemotherapy!!!! Probably within a couple of years. Wow!!! Not a wonder I got better!
Do I have any regrets that if they knew more at the time I would not be so beat up now. Absolutely not! Think about it. The radiation prevents me from eating potato chips, and the chemo prevents me from hearing my wife. (just kiddin babe) Life is good.
But the 'shut up' part of todays inspiration actually came before my checkup, in actual fact on the way to the hospital. And it was directed at me! I came out of the pool this morning after 120 lengths (3kms), bemoaning how long it took me. And then I realized that just last night I wrote a whole freakin post on just this topic, a post that Elly liked no less, and here I was doing the same stupid thing. So I said to myself.
"Just shut the fuck up! Do the workouts that you know you need to do, stop timing every one of them, and shut the fuck up! It will all work out or it won't. No one freakin cares that you would like to have been 2 1/2 minutes faster. Shut the fuck up" Okay. Thanks!
I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. Long run day. Talk to you then.
(swim 3000 metres, 57:25)
"Never miss a chance to shut up."---Will Rogers
"If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it"---Tom Lehrer
Love
Peter
yeah shut the fuck up already! this started out as a much longer more interesting comment but I forgot my password and it all went away and Im too tired to do it all over
ReplyDeleteWay to go with recognizing you're ego voice and shutting it the fuck up. GAME ON!!
ReplyDeleteright on, my friend!
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