Will you be alive tomorrow?

In an earlier blog I told you what my oncologist said to me when I asked him how much time I had.  He said, "will you be alive tomorrow?"  I said, "I don't know."  Then he said, "That's the answer to your question.  No one knows."

In October a man named Robert Burris drove into work.  He always commuted from a small town south of Des Moines.  He got to work on a Friday and complained of a terrible headache.  So bad that he had someone follow him to Mercy West Hospital.  They did a battery of tests and later that day he was in surgery to remove a brain tumor.  They didn't give him much hope even with radiation and chemo but they said if he did them he would last longer.  So he did his radiation and his chemo.

Today he passed.  They found him dead in his recliner at 2:45.  The coroner said he probably died at around 1:30.  It's been about three months.  From "everything is ok in life" to dead and gone in less than 4 months.

You never know.  Life is fragile.  Take care of yourself.  Love your friends and family.  Do good.  Be good.  Try hard.  Live life like there is no tomorrow.