The Dreadful "Big C'

Now if anybody reads this blog please do not think I am looking for sympathy, I am not!

I am 74 years-old, never been seriously ill in my life, still ride my mountain bike, okay now an E Mountain Bike because of a knee op 2 years ago. My wife and I ride across the hilly region of the Eifel in Germany where we purchased our lovely house 5 years ago, until now no problems.

We have been vegetarians for 40 odd years, and in the last months, have even reduced our dairy intake, and now we only consume cheese and eggs, which I refuse to give up. Instead of milk we now consume soya and wheat based drinks, without sugar. We have a healthy diet, fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, plenty of antioxidants, and hardly any processed foods. Furthermore, sweet soda drinks, Cola, Fanta, etc., never enter our house, As far as alcohol goes; yes at the weekends we enjoy a couple of bottles of red or white wine together, no hard stuff, and maybe a beer or two, in other words normal!

And smoking was, and is absolutely taboo, we have never smoked in our lives!

So, a few weeks ago I was diagnosed as having a malignant tumour on my tongue. I ignored the first warning signs and just thought it was a fungal infection because there was no pain and attempted to treat it with OTC's (over the counter creams). It was on my tongue for at least 5 years with no sign of turning malignant, but obviously, I ignored doing the most important thing, going to the Doc or Dentist, I was so fucking stupid! They would have picked up on it and I would not have had to suffer the consequences. Too late the "shit hit the fan" but luckily the cancer did not spread further than the tongue. My lungs, kidneys, liver, etc., are all still healthy. Downside; I have to have radiation treatment. That shit will take at least five weeks, and nearly all of my teeth have to be removed!

So, why am I telling you all this? I have been in a German hospital for nearly two weeks, and after observing so many very young, middle-aged, older non-patients visiting their relatives, plus many nurses and doctors smoking with impunity, massively overweight, obese, and many obvious signs of a non-sustainable life-stye, I think to myself "WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING TO THEMSELVES!!"

I know it is not my problem, I have enough of them now, but what would it take to inform and educate these people as to what on earth they are doing to themselves! Furthermore, how can these people be so masochistically self-destructive, and do they really understand what it means to have pieces of their bodies hacked off just because they live their lives like fucking consumer, blind morons? I did not live that way, but still I landed on a cancer station, so what will happen to them?

I know now what it means; a heavy operation, control after control for at least 5 years, and even between and after those 5 years, my life has now turned on its head. No, I will not die earlier than when my natural cycle deceases, but for that period I have become a victim of this horrendous disease, and luckily, I will still have a reasonably normal life.

Moral of this blog: Please, I beg all of those people (especially the young) who smoke, drink excessive alcohol, consume too many processed, shit foods, and believe this fucking illness will not eat you up, forget it!!! It will sooner or later, and you will suffer much more than I will after my op. And if you do not die in your hospital bed, the long road back to recovery, if ever, will be a horrific road, and how you are now living will "boomerang" and teach you a major, horrendous lesson!.

Sadly ignorance is abundant, and mostly it will be too late; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

DO NOT IGNORE THE WARNINGS!!