Leroy Sievers writes a cancer blog for NPR. Currently he's in Hawaii, relaxing and recouping. You can check out his blog at http://www.npr.org/blogs/mycancer/2007/05/. Below are my comments on his thoughts on time tables for patients:

Man the time limit thing, that is a bummer, of all the things you have to deal with for cancer treatment that is the one factor that looms over everything else. Why keep doing this to yourself (chemo?) Because it gives me longer to live. It gives me a tool to fight the beast.

I have stage 4 colon cancer. Doc said I wouldn't make it past this past January. So I went to the New Orleans Saints/Chicago Bears playoff game. I thought, well, this will be an historic game for our team (I'm from New Orleans). I came back with no frostbite and a renewed sense to fight. Now the doc says August. I am beginning to enjoy the deadlines, I like beating them.

Still, some days you have real philosophical thoughts or discussions about your limited time on the planet. People tell me "you never know" and "you could be hit by a bus tomorrow, anyone could". I hear that bus analogy a lot. Where are all these rampaging buses located? Apparently there is a derelict fleet of buses running over people all the time somewhere....

So some days I think about the things I may miss, birthdays and weddings and other life celebrations. Other days I wonder if I am going to outlive my cell phone plan.

All I know is that doc said August. I will beat those odds. Preseason NFL football starts in August, hurricane season is in full force, there is just too much excitement to give up the fight now.