"Welcome to the Living"

The oncologist said a couple of things yesterday, took a day to set in.

He regularly comments on how I am an electrical engineer, or enginerd as I like to call myself. Yesterday, he said 'welcome to the living' to me after saying that I am fine despite all my health problems. At the time, I laughed it off, and the remaining grey matter chewed on it for a day. This one statement has changed my outlook, somewhat.

My daily effort at work involves identifying problems, breaking them down and solving the individual pieces to come up with a solution. It is a very methodical, scientific process that usually gets me the solution in short order. Electronic systems behave in a very well defined manner.

The Doctor does not have it so easy. Every person is different, and the nobody understands all the rules the body uses to operate. Doctors can only help you so much. All the problems cannot be solved.

I thought that if I explained my problems accurately, he would be able to either explain why it can't be fixed, or TRY to fix it. I guess that's how it is with living systems. Kinda makes sense now, after 14 months of this.

I'll guess I'll have to man up and stop complaining soo much.