Odds

I am almost a week behind in my personal email so I decided I should probably see if there was anything important from non-family or friends.  One of my Google alerts delivered via email is on a drug I took for several years.  Apparently, a number of clinical trials were stopped by this week for a related illness because of the high number of deaths.  A Google search later, I learned it is still a drug used in the treatment of my illness.  Whew.  

As I cruised through NCI's latest information on treatment options, I saw the median survival rate.  I realized I am now one year beyond that median number.  It doesn't make me panic at all.  In fact, I feel generally healthy so the odds are with me.  It actually makes me think that I will continue beating this illness.  I wish I had the same level of confidence in beating everything else in my life but this is one thing that is actually going okay.