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Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 said:

Smokers

Po,

My mom was one of 9 siblings, and the only one still living is currently 85:  A five-pack-a-day habit for decades. And she is still going storng, never a cancer of any form. When I was a kid my parents had these old, large, glass ash trays throughout the house, since both of my parents were chain smokers also.  When the aunt (my mom's sister) would come over, every two hours or so one of us kids had to empty those ash trays, the butts would be stacked so high..... Disguisting, I know, but neither parent or auntie eve had a cancer.  

The previous owner of my current house died in the house at 85 years of age, a chain smoker for life. He reportedly still push-mowed the front yard the week before his death.  His son sold us the house, and told me the whole house had to be painted to remove the smoking stench, but another example of a man beating the odds.

I know that all of these accounts are anecdotal, and prove nothing.  Well, except that popular opinion is worthless.  I never smoked, and never will,

don

According to one opinion anyway. Mom and dad both smoked like chimneys. Mom sometimes had two smokes going in different rooms. She quit after a bad flu in her mid-40s. Dad quit when his heart acted up at 60. Mom died cancer free at 88, dad of lung and throat cancer at 66. Q: Did they put Roundup in cigarettes?

po18guy said:

But both of us look angry...

According to one opinion anyway. Mom and dad both smoked like chimneys. Mom sometimes had two smokes going in different rooms. She quit after a bad flu in her mid-40s. Dad quit when his heart acted up at 60. Mom died cancer free at 88, dad of lung and throat cancer at 66. Q: Did they put Roundup in cigarettes?

Po,

Never been told I wasn't charming; well, except folks saying I remind them of Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver:  You eh talkin' to me ? I know you not talkin' to me !

People who meet or speak to me say I am thoughtful, reflective, kind.   Getting run over by the car and crushed to death (spontaneously 'came back' at the scene), dying in ICU again 5 days later, and the years of rehab  (followed by the two cancers) left me not too chipper in appearance. After my pretty rough 6 months of R-ABVD, which left me with lung fibrosis and loss of 30% of my usable lung volume, I met a coworker at a remote site one day. This was a guy I hadn't seen in 7 months. We were not daily contacts, he averaged running in to me maybe 2 or three times a month.   When he saw me (about a month after ending chemo) he initially did not recognize me, and when I spoke and he did, he visibly staggered, could not believe how I looked.  I had two other similiar episodes, occasional contacts who honestly did not know who I was.

Toss in 7 major surguries in the last ten years, and what I feel like physically is difficult to convey.

Ad hominems like his simply mean a person has run out of  ideas anyway.

I'm prertty 'thick-skinned' also (it's from the scar tissue),

max

you may have better luck starting a new thread. I can only say that lymphoma tumors are rarely painful.