You Might Have Cancer

"You might have cancer."

How do you react to that statement?

Even when you feel fine...
Even when you're confident you're fine...
Even when there are no signs...

An infinitesimal but screechy little voice natters in the back of your head. "What if?" it squeaks with a timbre like fingernails-on-blackboard.

"I'm fine," you tell it.

"I'm fine," you tell the wife, kids, friends.

But, the little voice reminds you that you just might not be fine. And if you're not, things will be different from now on.

So when, a year and a half later, you are declared fine, you respond firmly and with finality to the voice, "Told you."

But, three months later, "You have MDS."

How do you react to that statement?

You ask, "What the hell is MDS?"