The Hardest Part
The great American Philosopher Thomas Earl Petty said it best: The waiting is the hardest part Every day you see one more card You take it on faith, you take it to the heart The waiting is the hardest part Tom has expressed my current situation most concisely and most perfectly. I have less than 24 hours to wait before my Urologist shares with me the results of a more sophisticated PSA test. It will most likely reveal whether I have Prostate Cancer. That "one more card" will go a long way to inform what will happen in 2023. Not that I'm all that spun up about it: a previous missive in this space expressed my disdain for tippy-toeing around the word "cancer" since if I indeed have cancer, I already have it and saying the word won't make any practical difference. And once I learn (if I learn, and there's a greater than zero chance that I don't have cancer), it then creates new decision trees that allow me to perceive I'm being proactive. My ...