Gary, I consider myself lucky, three bouts (or even more in future) is nothing compared to what some on this group have gone through. Life doesn't come with guarantees, but I feel that I have had a good one and this stuf is just part of it. Heck, after all this I will still have two eyes, two lungs, two arms and two legs, just to name some useful stuf that many don't have!

A hundred years ago I would already have been dead from serious burns or a fall that broke my face, so cancer's maybe just the fare I pay for a longer ride on the mortal coil.

My ex-wife's second husband has pulmonary fibrosis, plus he's had serious heart problems -- I was talking to a childhood friend who had helped nurse her mother with PF, and she said that if he was lucky, he would die of heart problems first -- Apparently, PF is a long, painful process with only one ending.