{"id":51794,"date":"2019-11-07T06:54:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51794"},"modified":"2019-11-07T06:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:54:13","slug":"chronic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51794","title":{"rendered":"Chronic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Samain and the Fallow Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Met David yesterday for coffee. He has metastatic prostate cancer, a more serious situation than mine. His doc told him on Tuesday that they were now treating his prostate cancer as a chronic disease. This is more and more the case with cancer, prostate cancer in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes me feel more positive. My trajectory is still toward a cure and it&#8217;s looking like I might make it there. But, if I don&#8217;t. There&#8217;s always David&#8217;s route. Beginning to sound more and more like prostate cancer will not take me across the threshold to the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David&#8217;s a Beth Evergreen friend, as is his wife. They brought us a meal during the hard days at the end of my radiation treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After David and I had coffee, at the Starbucks in Safeway, I took the opportunity to do some grocery shopping. It was busy, odd for 3 pm on Wednesday. The bagger said it was folks getting in ahead of the fog storm. Huh? When I left, I couldn&#8217;t see any mountain peaks. All in clouds. Driving home made me wonder how folks who live along oceans and big lakes drive in fog since it&#8217;s more frequent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second day in a row with no doctor appointments. Feels a bit vacant. A good feeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samain and the Fallow Moon Met David yesterday for coffee. He has metastatic prostate cancer, a more serious situation than mine. His doc told him on Tuesday that they were now treating his prostate cancer as a chronic disease. This is more and more the case with cancer, prostate cancer in particular. Makes me feel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chronic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51795,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51794\/revisions\/51795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}