Trying not to harp on
November 8th 2008 09:16
Without wishing to harp on about the prostate business I’ve been discussing over the last couple of weeks, I’m going to mention it again. This time, hopefully, from a more positive viewpoint.
Nothing has so far changed on the prostate side, except that the latest blood test, done last Wednesday, showed that the PSA level had risen yet again, to 11.something.
Anyway, some time this week I came to the conclusion that focusing on the future from a negative point of view wasn’t the way to go. Obvious, really, but sometimes it takes a bit of getting to such a point.
I need to think about whether the coming year is going to be one of holding back - primarily because of the prostate thingee - or one of achieving some things. A friend of mine reminded me about the verse in Epistle of James where the merchants say: we're going to go and spend a year in another town building up our business.
Now while I need to keep this in mind, I’d still like to float the possibilities for next year. The Good Lord can deal with them or not as he sees fit.
Here they are:
maybe an extra in the movie;
maybe doing a paper on Research for Varsity through distance learning;
maybe doing the block course on Congregations in New Zealand at varsity;
maybe putting on another concert of my more-recently-composed music;
maybe acting in the next Narnia play (The Silver Chair), if there's something suitable;
maybe acting in another friend’s production of A Christmas Carol if it gets off the ground;
and no doubt other things…such as going to hotels Las Vegas (probably not likely!)
All these are better focuses than bemoaning my fate. Maybe I will have a biopsy soon which will not be positive. Maybe I will have to have my prostate removed. I say a loud YUCK to that. But rather than making that the focus of life in 2009, let me focus on the positive things, and the prostate will just have to fit in around them.
Nothing has so far changed on the prostate side, except that the latest blood test, done last Wednesday, showed that the PSA level had risen yet again, to 11.something.
Anyway, some time this week I came to the conclusion that focusing on the future from a negative point of view wasn’t the way to go. Obvious, really, but sometimes it takes a bit of getting to such a point.
I need to think about whether the coming year is going to be one of holding back - primarily because of the prostate thingee - or one of achieving some things. A friend of mine reminded me about the verse in Epistle of James where the merchants say: we're going to go and spend a year in another town building up our business.
Now while I need to keep this in mind, I’d still like to float the possibilities for next year. The Good Lord can deal with them or not as he sees fit.
Here they are:
maybe an extra in the movie;
maybe doing a paper on Research for Varsity through distance learning;
maybe doing the block course on Congregations in New Zealand at varsity;
maybe putting on another concert of my more-recently-composed music;
maybe acting in the next Narnia play (The Silver Chair), if there's something suitable;
maybe acting in another friend’s production of A Christmas Carol if it gets off the ground;
and no doubt other things…such as going to hotels Las Vegas (probably not likely!)
All these are better focuses than bemoaning my fate. Maybe I will have a biopsy soon which will not be positive. Maybe I will have to have my prostate removed. I say a loud YUCK to that. But rather than making that the focus of life in 2009, let me focus on the positive things, and the prostate will just have to fit in around them.
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