Support

Gayle gently drove me to an introductory cancer support group meeting this evening.  She had gone last week and decided it would be good for me to attend.   Remember me mentioning that often she has these ideas that are good, but difficult to implement?

So what is so difficult to implement here?  Let's list the issues, I am a guy, who is not very verbal in person, who does not freely express his feelings, privately or publicly, who tends to be anti social in nature.  What can go wrong here?

The support groups are designed to give you a perspective of you are not alone.  Their goal is to get you into groups that are targeted for your type of cancer.  This doesn't sound like that bad of idea does it.  That is the problem.  My normal George says, don't do it,  my conscious George (Gayle) says it would be a good thing to do.

As you may know, as I age, normal George's won loss record is slanted to the loss side.  Conscious George (Gayle) has been gaining steam and winning by large land slides.  But normal George still has that inborn stubborn streak.  As we can tell by my medical history, that stubborn streak probably contributed to the bypass surgery and late colonoscopy.  Conscious George (Gayle) has been running at about 95% correct.  I reserve the 5% for the margin of error and preservation of my ego.

So you get this feeling of where this all is heading.