Happy Land

Ok- people who have been around me have heard this term.  I even spoke about this to the management staff at Xerox.  This is where I live.  Huh?

Ok- I have prostate cancer that spread to the bone.  How is that happy.  The realization that without any family history the first test I was even scheduled for was age 50.  There is the other test that is unpleasant for guys, but not the PSA blood test.  My doc tested me for it and caught it.  Fine he caught it- a little late- but on the early end of being a little late.  If I hadn't scheduled that physical- and my doc ordered the blood test, I would have been gone a few years ago.  I had zero symptoms.

My brother got mad at a driver that wasn't paying attention.  Hmmm....we all skip paying attention once in a while, just ask Deanna how I go through my day.  I got on him- because getting upset really doesn't matter in the scheme of things.  And in Happy Land, we didn't get into in accident, and everyone was fine.

I finished radiation today.  As I left the area, there was a guy must have been 125 years old being wheeled back to get treated.  His wife was with him- and I would assume his daughter.  Ok- he has cancer, that's why we are all there.  But I left there thinking, darn the guy is lucky to live such a long life with his family by his side.  And the treatments are probably offering him the same pain relief that I have received.  Every radiation beam kills cancer cells- I would call that happy.

I have to relay a story about a flea market in LA.  A mom with kids were in the parking lot and prompted an altercation with 2 others.  Mom was a hot head, said some things, and in turn was stabbed to death by the 2 other people in front of her kids.  Whatever happened in the parking lot wasn't worth getting upset.  And then losing your life in front of your kids?  The way my mind works- I would have given the 2 the space, washed their car, bought them cookies..... 

So my address is on Craig Place in Happy Land.  It is a good place to be because the alternative really isn't worth much.