Life is full of moments of joy and happiness and moments of worry and grief.

It often goes from one to another from one day to another and adjusting is not always easy.

Here one example :

My wife can not stand the smell of stale smoke that I leave behind me after turning off my pipe.

For weeks, she begged me to quit this damned pipe, soon my only joy at my age.

Now, for almost four days, I no longer smoke, I passed the time when I was walking with my empty pipe in my mouth, just to remember the pleasure of smoking. I put to the "the archives" my pipes and fittings and discarded the little tobacco that I had. The satisfaction of my wife was pleased to be seen and I was happy for her and proud to have accomplished this exploit.

Just before Easter, I went to see my doctor for my regular checkup, a routine meeting already scheduled 6 months ago and that I had completely forgotten.

Bad surprise!

It seems that my prostate cancer, dormant since 2005, begins to emerge again, an unexpected recurrence. As my doc said, at my age, I should be happy to have been saved for almost 5 years....

My main problem is not the possible recurrence of my cancer. If confirmed, it will be allready the second time and I know how to cure it

As my wife says, she doesnt want me to stop smoking because the smell, but because I could get a throat cancer...

Now, that I probably have another kind of cancer, why should I stop smoking my pipe ?