Clean Living

Some smokers do, and yet other smokers never get lung cancer; and what about those stricken who never smoked at all. 

New Normal

Mundane, repetitive, boring, consistent, uninteresting, droll, predictable - everything about a routine sounds blah. 

Irony

In retrospect, the first inkling I had of a possible blood-borne issue came about 8 months prior to my diagnosis. 

Background

The earth spins at roughly 1,000-mph, so as you can imagine things happen very quickly at that velocity. 

Hello

How does this happen?!  Not: how does this happen to me – I don’t deserve it.  But: how does it happen physiologically?