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29 Jun |
I should have ridden my bike instead Golf
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As it turns out, I shot probably the worst round I have shot in well over a year. I didn’t even break 100.
My tempo and sequencing were both way off, and I just couldn’t manage to get them back. I should have stopped after nine, but I guess I’m a glutton for punishment.
I did manage 3 pars and a birdie, but even that wasn’t enough to lift my spirits. 
Oh well, it’s off to the range tomorrow.
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29 Jun |
So much time, so little to say Cycling, Day to Day Life, Golf, My MCL
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Well, it’s been about 4 days since my last post, and there hasn’t seemed to be anything of consequence worth reporting on lately.
The plant, where I work, is on it’s annual preventative maintenance shut down, so I haven’t had to go in to work at all this week. In fact, I don’t have to go in until July 10th, when some visitors, from Boeing, are coming to do a fracture critical (quality) audit.
The plant doesn’t start up again until July 23
So to keep busy these last couple of days, I’ve either been riding my bike or playing golf every day, and sometimes even doing both in the same day. Today I’m playing golf.
Yeah, I know. Life’s tough!
Anywaze, I’ve been pretty happy with my golf game as of late, as I prepare for the Long Beach Men’s City Championship July 6
So that’s about it, except for next Monday, when I have my obligatory bimonthly visit with my substitute oncologist (mine is on maternity leave), and my monthly blood work. I am anxious to see if my blood counts continue on the favorable trend exhibited last month, or if that test was just a fluke.
I’ll keep you posted.
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25 Jun |
This just in! Recreational sun exposure can prevent lymphoma General Health
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The number of vacations spent in sunny climates was inversely associated with a diagnosis of lymphoma, the researchers report, especially for Hodgkin lymphoma and B-non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Mantle cell lymphoma falls under the latter category.
After accounting for other factors associated with lymphoma risk, the researchers found that individuals who spent more than 1,190 cumulative days in sunny locations had a 60-percent lower risk than those in sunny locations for 350 days or less.
Whoa!! I think I’ve exceeded the 1,190 cumulative days, having lived in Southern California, and Houston, TX, for the last 29 years.
One exception was high UV exposure during outdoor leisure activities up to age 15 years, which was associated with an increased risk of lymphoma.
Oh! I guess that must have been my problem. When I was 15 years old, there weren’t things like video games and computers to occupy my time, and keep me in the house.
So I guess there’s something to be said for parents insisting their children stay in doors and become couch potatoes, at least until age 15.
Of course, the one caveat (remember there always has to be at least one caveat)
this must still be balanced against the strong association between sun exposure and skin cancers, including melanoma, a potentially lethal cancer that can spread and be hard to treat.
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23 Jun |
Happy birthday to me Day to Day Life, My MCL
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Well if you haven’t figured it out by the title, today is my birthday, and I’m 59 years old.
WOW! It’s almost hard to believe, considering just over 5 years ago, I was having doubts that I would ever get to be 55, let alone 59.
Back then, I said if I could get 5 good years, I would be happy, but now that I got those 5 good years, I’m not at all happy. Nothing has changed. I still have MCL, and I now I want another 5 good years.
It’s just so hard, knowing you have a terminal illness, and trying to live life as though you didn’t. It’s so hard to get up every morning, put on that happy face, go to work, play golf, ride my bike, or do any other myriad of things, as if nothing was wrong, all the time knowing the disease could hit me anytime.
But it’s also hard not knowing when it seems everything is more difficult to accomplish, or you have to take a nap after doing all those things you love, whether it’s the disease that is gathering strength, depression from dealing with the constant cloud over you, or, as this day reminds me, I’m just getting older.
It’s plenty hard enough just dealing with my MCL, I sure don’t need no stinkin’ birthday to remind I’m getting older.
Of course gifts can go a long way to relieving some of those anxieties. 