 Greetings, friends. This is Survival Doc. This is the December 22nd edition to my cancer series. And a thought just came to mind that I wanted to get down on video while I was thinking about it, watching the editions here just a minute ago. And I've actually introduced this topic in a prior video, so if this is a repeat, I apologize. But it's been over a year now since I first came down with cancer and had their initial tumor removed and now I'm dealing with the metastasis. And it is the tester showing that this new tumor that I have about the size of a piton in the shell in my gut area is not reducing despite our treatments is still remaining the same. So we're still hoping, of course, that it's going to start responding to treatments and it's going to start shrinking. But this has made me think at first, my chiropractor told me at first that I was in denial about a year ago. And I thought she was crazy, but now looking back on it, I'm thinking, well, maybe she was right. Initially, I don't think I took this cancer seriously thinking that, hey, this is something that could kill me. I just saw it as I've been sick before and I've always recovered and I've been very, very healthy all my life and lived a healthy lifestyle. So I just figured this was something else that I was going to be able to get over. Well, after years time, I'm being faced with my mortality or I'm facing my mortality a little bit more than I was a while back. And that made me think, you know, this cancer has really been a blessing in some ways. And that is, you know, they say that when people are about to die, they report. If they don't die later on, they report that they saw their life flash right before their eyes in the instant that they felt like they were about to die. And in my case, this has been going on for a year and I've had the blessing or I've been fortunate enough to not have to have my life flash before my eyes because I've had a whole year for my life to pass before my eyes or in other words for me to think about my life. And I'm 60 years old now and I was just washing the dishes and that's a chore that usually my wife performs. Thank you very much. But she's out of town right now visiting our son and his family. And so I was washing the dishes, not that I never washed dishes, but I mean I was washing a bunch of dishes. And it kind of took me back to a time back when I was in college and kind of moved out on my own for the first time. And I was renting a house and, you know, setting up housekeeping for myself and I was, I would be washing, you know, I had my, renting a house, I had my own kitchen and I was doing my own cooking and that was when I first got into cooking and things. And I would be washing my dishes as a bachelor then of course. And it made me think back to that time where my life was just kind of just getting started. And I thought about the time that has intervened since then. I'm talking about a time back in the 70s and what has taken place since the 70s to today. But anyway, I've had a lot more time to think about my life and that's one thing that this, one of the things that this cancer has done and it like stopped me dead, well not literally dead, sorry that's the poor, that's the poor choice of words no doubt. But it stopped me in my tracks and then all of a sudden, you know, my life was changed and I can review my life and not have to have it flash, you know, before my eyes at the last minute. I can take some time to think about my life and that is just what I wanted to mention in this hopefully short video log today. And that this cancer has been a blessing in that it has allowed me to have my life flash before my eyes, but at the same time given me a chance to take my time and look at it and consider it carefully. And that's all. And this is Survival Doc reminding you be prepared or be prepared to be fleeced.