I was listening to the New Year’s Day concert by the Vienna philharmonic and wondered who one of the composers was so used a popular song recognition app. (I expected it would make some fuzzy match on the piece and give me the name + composer). To my amazement it did give the name and composer but as played by the Vienna philharmonic in 2005 in the same location. The orchestra does not have the same members as 19 years ago, nor was it the same conductor, so it seemed the piece was matched on the acoustics of the Musikverein where they were playing, which I found astonishing.
My cancer medication for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.
I don’t have to have chemotherapy. I take a single pill once daily. There are side effects, sure. My life isn’t as full of pep as it used to be, sure. I’m still in pain all the time, sure.
But I’ve seen cancer, and I’ve seen how bad it can get and I’m floored at how much of a real life I’m capable of leading while being treated for this disease.
The cost and risk of losing access to it hanging over my head is very stressful, but I can’t deny the actual results, which are life-changing and life-saving to say the least.
Amazing the progress that’s been made in that area
Progress in the last few decades has been amazing. One of my coworkers died in the late 1990s from some kind of leukemia that today is highly curable.