OT: The OT Thread: 40 degree temps in this economy? (Warning in post 368)

[Chainshot]

to be fair, you had to dodge streaking track team members in that library...

In lousy news my childhood best friend went to urgent care for a pulled muscle and, after a battery of tests in the last week, learned that he has stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis with a bunch of other related grim findings. Age 41, nonsmoker, and we're all blindsided. He flew back home for roswell park and ended up scoring a signed, personalized Tage Thompson stick. Good dude, that giraffe.

Sorry to hear about your friend. Hope he gets the best care possible.

Nice of Tage to do that, seems like a nice guy.

 

[TheMistyStranger]

Similar to a school friend of mine. Her dad was riddled with cancer from memory and had no idea. He was 47. I remember thinking "that's quite young". Now I'm 43 and how young that is in the scheme of things hits a bit harder.

Stage 4 is obviously tough, but not insurmountable. I hope he smashes it.

I had a similar random thought pop into my head last night, which is that my dad was only 20 years older than I am now when he died. I live a much healthier lifestyle but even so, 20 years is not so long a time.