Oh boy, my long lost twin!! HaHa! I come from a long line of worriers as well. I remember walking past my old Italian grandmother praying the rosary; I must have been 12 or 13 yrs old.
“Who are you praying for, Nana?” I asked her. She stopped, pointed her finger at me and said “You!” I was totally shocked…”Me?? Why?!” “Because,” she answered , “In life you just never know…”
THAT was when it started for me. But after a long life of worrying, planning, second guessing and saying ‘what ifs’ , all it’s gotten me is a big fat nothing.
Not saying that you should not exercise caution, but worrying now about our cancer is pretty pointless. We got it, we have it, we deal with it and that’s it. Some guys on this board have been dealing with it for decades - but they’re still here, still enjoying life, still keeping on.
We’re all gonna die someday and if you really started to worry about all the different things that could kill you, you simply couldn’t function.
So just do what you gotta do and enjoy life NOW. That’s why it’s called “the present”…