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 A blog of no uncertain musings. What goes on in my mind is often a source of wonder to me. |
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My mind and my life are wonderous things ... as are yours, I'm sure. I have more slips of paper and pages of notebooks with musings and thoughts than I really know what to do with. Someone, actually several someones, have suggested I start a blog ... or a journal as a means of focusing some of this mental energy. To be honest, I don't even know what the difference between a 'journal' and 'blog' is--or if there even is a difference. Read on, my friends, and you can judge for yourself whether it even matters. And so....  I'm JACE. Yep ... that's me! And somewhere in all my writings my last name may be posted. But I'll just leave it at Jace for right now. I'm 70 years old and heading full tilt to 71. It's strange that while I'm going through some rather serious medical issues, I still consider myself to be in the prime of my life--pretty good shape physically AND mentally, though I don't run for competition anymore  . I love to ... dang, if I put this stuff here, I won't have anything for my blog.Guess you just have to be patient until such stuff leaks out.  Perhaps 2025, having embraced my retirement, will see more participation in my journaling efforts. Well, one can hope.... |
| I guess it's inevitable that whenever one gets cancer, the talk of genetics comes into play. Did I have genetic markers within that predisposed me toward one form of cancer or another? My Oncologist raised that topic during her call a few days ago. She is going to request a consult for genetic testing to see if I was somehow prone to getting my particular form of kidney cancer. Apart from some occasional lower back pain, which many people have at one time or another, I had none of the routine symptoms for my cancer. One of the many questions I had to answer during all the tests I had leading up to my cancer diagnosis was a family history of cancer. To my knowledge, only lung cancer occurred in my family. My father and younger brother died from it both smoking heavily until they passed. So in six months--that's how long it takes just to get the consult--I'll be tested. I have no reason now to believe I was genetically inclined toward kidney cancer. But I need to be sure I didn't pass some marker to my children. More tests .... |
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