Dead Doctors Dont Lie
May 3rd, 2014 - Sherbrooke, Qc
The title is from a Dr joel D. Wallach book (or video)... Seems that doctors die, statistically, at around 57-60 years old, a lot sooner than the "coach patatoes" (statistically), so why trust them entirely and blindly when it comes to our lives? Well, most of us are conditioned a life to do just that...
So, it was not easy for me to say NO the the surgery they in a hurry programmed me for (even if I feel quite ok and my cancer seems to be stabilized...I've started to paint and draw again...). But I did, even if most of my friends said I was crazy...
Well, now, artists are a bit crazy, aren't they? (at least a little bit...)
So, instead of lying "gutted like a trout" on an operation table and then for 2 months (if everything went ok and they wouldn't forget a scalpel or some gauze in your belly...) lying in bed with a caca-bag (yes, those details got me disgusted and taken aback too...) I've prefered to take my chances with God and to trust my body to recover with diet, meditation, prayer and exercise... And if not, at least, I decided for myself and wasn't just a sheep or cow (well, bull) hearded to the slaughter-house... painting, drawing will help enormously too, I know it. I have a purpose and a meaning in my life: to paint, to draw, to photograph the beauty all around us (my grandsons included, whom I hope to see going to school, at least...)
Pray for me too, if you do pray. And wish me luck. I need it.
Best wishes to you and yours, good friends from FAA.
Danu