Cancer Is Like An Air Conditioning Manual?

I had an air conditioning tech out to our new Florida home today to clean the system, look thinks over and give me some tips about how best to use the system. During our conversation, Greg, the technician, mentioned his father was recently diagnosed with bone cancer. I shared my situation with him and showed him my book, Living with Multiple Myeloma. As the conversation progressed I discovered he wasn't exactly sure what type of cancer his father was fighting. I briefly explained the difference between bone cancer and some other type of cancer that may have metastasized to the bone. He then said yes, his father had been diagnosed with prostate cancer a number of years before. His concern is that his elderly father and mother didn't understand what type of cancer he had and what difference it made. I used the analogy of an air conditioning system. We had just gone on line to print a replacement manual for my Trane system. I suggested he think of the cancer like a home air system. It would be difficult to repair the system without the manual, a system serial number, the age of the system and some knowledge of how the system was working or wasn't working. This made perfect sense to him! He left with my book and a list of questions to ask his parents and his doctors. Nice guy! I hope things work out with his father's upcoming treatment, whatever it may be.
Feel good and keep smiling! Pat