Last February when I first began writing this blog which was just after I had been diagnosed with lung cancer, I was unaware that an American lawyer was also suffering a similar fate. Some of my blogs have found their way across the Atlantic and hopefully have played a small part in aiding her recovery. As far as I know she is still going through the various stages of chemotherapy. She is updating everyone by keeping a thread going. Well I am not exactly sure what a thread is, but it seems it is something similar to a blog only its appears to be a two way thing. Barbara is keeping tabs on this venture. Isn’t it strange though when you tap out your blog each day, you simply have absolutely no idea of where it is going to go, or who it might impact on or affect. Ploughing through her thread last night, I noticed she had used the phrase “Why me,” several times. I guess every one of us have at some point or other asked “Why me.” I am glad it was me that was hit by lung cancer, simply because I think you worry more about other people than you do about yourself. When it someone else that is suffering with a terrible disease there is not much you can do about it only stand by and watch and utter words of comfort, when its you, you can actually do something about it, you can fight against it, and even if you don’t have the strength to fight, you can still console yourself that it is you that is suffering, and not someone you love. So, why not say. “Thank God it is me, and not my wife, son, daughter or whoever.” Strangely enough we never say why me when something good happens, like a lottery win, or we get a job promotion. Its only when something negative happens. You know, the next time you feel like saying why me, think of a graveyard, and if you were to be able to read all the inscriptions on the headstones, you would never find the words “Why me” and you can’t be more sick than dead.

We did not have a gathering this Friday, I’m just not quite up to it just yet, but it won’t be long before the gatherings are back in full swing once again. The forecast is not good for this weekend either so it doesn’t look like I am going to get out in the boat either. Well whatever you have planned for the weekend, I hope you enjoy. I will be back bashing away at the keyboard on Monday.

Until then, this is Tom Glassey with News in a timeless zone on the banks of the Silverburn.