It's that time of the year.  Time to make resolutions 2010!  A new decade, no less.  I find the routine ones are boring and overused:  Lose weight.  Work out.  Clean out the closets.  Be nicer to_____________.
 
Does a cancer patient or a cancer survivor have different resolutions?
 
My resolution was simply to get outside once a day.  I no longer have cancer as an excuse not to do something.  Now years into survivorship, I see the old pre-cancer habits have returned.  Why?  Because cancer doesn't really change our basic personality.  But it does make us preciously aware of our own mortality. 
 
For cancer patients and the rest of the world, may you live to see each day in 2010 in a way that makes you proud.  Taking it one day at a time is still a respected time-honored approach.
 
Happy New Year Ya'll! Read January Newsletter Issue 2010.
 
Why Me?