#6- Rethink the Statistics

-do not be paralyzed by statistics.
-there is no type of cancer that does not have some rates of survival
-no statistician can determine the results of any particular case, including mine... and not other patient in any study anywhere has done exactly the things I have done/I am doing
-determine to act with the conviction that you will be counted among the “survivor statistics”

I have always ignored or discounted the statistics. In fact I have avoided reading much information because I didn’t want to know the statistics. I was aware of them, and they were bad, and thinking about them never helped, so I tried not to--and I avoided places that would confront me with them. Now I am reading more and researching more. And I need to get over this avoidance. I need to look at any stat I see and think of it as a determination to be in the survivor group. That is what I plan to do from now on. Only 30% of people are alive 5 years after a diagnosis like mine. I am almost at 4 years post diagnosis and I will definitely, definitively, defiantly be among that 30% living 5+ years. I’m going to live another 50, at least!!