Comments on: On Survival http://emptyeye.com/2009/09/15/on-survival/ Music and writing about speedruns, smashing arrows, and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:37:58 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: emptyeye http://emptyeye.com/2009/09/15/on-survival/comment-page-1/#comment-3549 emptyeye Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:41:26 +0000 http://emptyeye.com/?p=386#comment-3549 That's totally true. Factors may well go into surviving it besides just the type of cancer--I was apparently a good candidate to survive because I was 20 years old and otherwise healthy--but in all, it really does seem to be frighteningly random at times. That’s totally true. Factors may well go into surviving it besides just the type of cancer–I was apparently a good candidate to survive because I was 20 years old and otherwise healthy–but in all, it really does seem to be frighteningly random at times.

]]> By: James http://emptyeye.com/2009/09/15/on-survival/comment-page-1/#comment-3510 James Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:29:43 +0000 http://emptyeye.com/?p=386#comment-3510 Cancer is such a wild card -- some have high survival rates, some have abysmal survival rtes (pancreatic cancer, like Patrick Swayze and Jody's Dad had, has something like a 3% survival rate) and just about everyone has been touched by it in one way or the other. When I think back about the summer of your diagnosis, the whole incident didn't seem real, as if I'd come back at Christmas and Marc would be the same old Marc, scrawny or not. Of course, that wasn't quite how it happened. Now that life is "normal" again (if there is such a thing) it's still puzzling to know what factors actually go into beating cancer. The medicine, of course but the attitude, the support and who knows what X-factors might be involved. This is why I always aim to cure cancer as soon as I can in Civilization 4 :) Cancer is such a wild card — some have high survival rates, some have abysmal survival rtes (pancreatic cancer, like Patrick Swayze and Jody’s Dad had, has something like a 3% survival rate) and just about everyone has been touched by it in one way or the other.

When I think back about the summer of your diagnosis, the whole incident didn’t seem real, as if I’d come back at Christmas and Marc would be the same old Marc, scrawny or not. Of course, that wasn’t quite how it happened.

Now that life is “normal” again (if there is such a thing) it’s still puzzling to know what factors actually go into beating cancer. The medicine, of course but the attitude, the support and who knows what X-factors might be involved.

This is why I always aim to cure cancer as soon as I can in Civilization 4 :)

]]>