There are many types of prisons. Trapped in a physical building is just one example. You can be imprisoned in a travel experience that won’t end. You can be incarcerated in your own mind, being in a rhetorical prison. When I am in treatment centers, I always ask people sitting near me, “what are you in for?’ They always get where I am coming from. We don’t have to discuss anything else, just that we understand the position we are all in.

Mount Everest is Earth’s highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal subrange of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow height) of 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) was most recently established in 2020 by the Nepali and Chinese authorities. The Tibetan name for Everest is “Qomolanma, Holy Mother.” That friends, are exactly what I refer to as my cancer as well ”Holy Mother!”

The funny thing about so many diseases out there is that they do not have a regular shelf life! By that I mean they never end until you die. Even a cure, or remission brings with it the big word: Maintenance.