Glades2

I work with a man who was a former New York City fireman - and lost most of his old friends on 9/11, and to this day when something goes wrong (for example, he lost his wallet a few weeks ago - credit cards included), he just shrugs it off and says, "It's not a problem", since nothing likely compares to what he did see while digging through the rubble for his old friends during the weeks after the building's collapse, and this way of thinking is probably similar to Lance's mindset, since he endured the kind of long-period suffering that only a cancer patient can understand, and also knows that most with a similar spread of cancer cells are no longer here, so to him the pain of today's mountain climb, while still painful, comes in a distant second to the suffering he endured during his illness, and similar to my co-worker it changes the way a person view's life - perhaps his critics (who have never been seriously ill) need to remind themselves of this...