The most perfect summer ever continues. Each day dawns clear and warm. There is rain in the forecast for the end of the week so we shall see if summer can make a final comeback after that!
I have done the medical rounds once again in preparation for diagnostics of spine and liver later this month. I have done everything in my power to access nivolumab as soon as the Extended Access Program rolls out at Lion's Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. Dr. Sasha was able to confirm last week that he will be the first to start and I hope I will be at the front of his line!
October will be a month of reckoning for me. It will become clear how well my body is doing at keeping my implacable enemy at bay and I will have the genome study available in the hope that therapeutic targets can be identified.
I am going through a period of feeling really well physically, being able to exercise and enjoying life. I mean that in a deep, not a trite, way. What a privilege it is for me to have become human and to fall in love with the world in all its complexity. If only we could become more familiar every day with the mystery that envelops us. It is so easy and commonplace to be unaware. So often, we see older people completely wrapped up in their diminishing enjoyment of life. We have to see through the mirage and savour the magic of what it means to be alive. Old age is a recently acquired privilege for humans. It's our opportunity to examine more deeply and see more clearly.
Peace and love to all. Nigel
I have done the medical rounds once again in preparation for diagnostics of spine and liver later this month. I have done everything in my power to access nivolumab as soon as the Extended Access Program rolls out at Lion's Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. Dr. Sasha was able to confirm last week that he will be the first to start and I hope I will be at the front of his line!
October will be a month of reckoning for me. It will become clear how well my body is doing at keeping my implacable enemy at bay and I will have the genome study available in the hope that therapeutic targets can be identified.
I am going through a period of feeling really well physically, being able to exercise and enjoying life. I mean that in a deep, not a trite, way. What a privilege it is for me to have become human and to fall in love with the world in all its complexity. If only we could become more familiar every day with the mystery that envelops us. It is so easy and commonplace to be unaware. So often, we see older people completely wrapped up in their diminishing enjoyment of life. We have to see through the mirage and savour the magic of what it means to be alive. Old age is a recently acquired privilege for humans. It's our opportunity to examine more deeply and see more clearly.
Peace and love to all. Nigel
