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Heading Into The Death Zone

Issues: … death zone thinking … really dying … interpreting living or dying … is there a time line now to one’s life ….

In watching the National Geographic documentary on those climbing mount Everest who made it up and down and those who did not, one term is ‘heading into the death zone.’

This is a place on the mountain where nothing lives that long, and you better not get caught there, like if high winds come up.

the camera crew also interviewed climbers who had gone past live bodies lying there who asked for help. But none of the climbers could help. They did not have the strength to carry someone else off the mountain.

Also, the climbers so afflicted often had made unrealistic decisions, like trying to be the first woman who had climbed Everest without assistance with oxygen, even though she had not first tested herself if she could climb at that altitude. Thus she made a fatal mistake. The climber that found her looked at how large her pupils were and saw no hope for this prone climber who had given out a feeble, ‘help…’

I didn’t need to sit there to listen to any more of this. As a person sick with cancer I already felt extreme weakness in just driving Stefania with our boxes of goods. My mind still functions, as now writing this. But the lethargy clearly told me how sick I am.

I could see how slowly those climbers climbed to reach the top of their chosen mountain. And what for? More than one climber said that there was no achievement in climbing Mount Everest since it had originally been climbed.

My point for me is that I am indeed climbing Mount Cancer right at this moment with my body limited by a huge tumor and other stuff going on, like even the wrong and debilitating medication DEX and God knows what else.

I give off little coughs as well.

What am I trying to say?

I am indeed climbing my own mountain of life at this very moment. How limited am I in my body now? Will my body ever get back to a normal and vital energy level to function well physically?

Is there much hope for me to get down off Cancer Mountain? Am I in the death zone now for the rest of my existence?

Maybe an answer will be available this week from the doctors?

Climbing Mount Everest did not show any miracles happening but only hard reality, what you can do to the mountain, and what the mountain will do to you.

It must be so in my case as well.   Why would there be miracles for me?

Except that, as the specialist said, this may not even be lung cancer. First we test and make a diagnosis.

What then have I got that I am dealing with?

What interventions, if any, are there to help me in this what feels like my personal death zone?

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