Cancer is expected to kill me in a year, and more medicine may, or may not, add some time to my life even though other medications already failed.
My oncologist asked how I was doing, and I said "Okay" She said "No, how are you really doing". I said "I have cancer. Cancer is killing me. [To heck with] it". She laughed.
Cancer
I had two skin cancer surgeries, half of my liver removed without narcotic pain killers. one liver cancer evaporated with microwaves, and a heart stent. I was also hospitalized three times due to related illness, which cut my weight to 115 pounds from 190 pounds - a pretty good diet plan!
So far, Chemo and other aggressive drugs failed. However, those drugs crippled my foot and partially paralyzed my fingers and mouth.
I have incurable cancer in my liver, esophagus, and spine, along with myriad lymph node cancers throughout my gut and chest. I have so many cancers that a standard electrocardiogram (ultrasound) cannot detect my heart.
I now walk with a cane since I kept falling down. Sometimes I also pass out. I hate weakness - one more fight.
My Past and Future
My life has been extraordinary. Walked across mountain tops. Drag raced. Skydived. Scuba dove. Climbed thousand / foot frozen waterfalls. Sailed through forty-foot storm waves in a seventy-foot boat near Antarctica. Earned master's and doctor's degrees and wrote engineering books. Along the way, I made amends for past wrongs.
I have asked myself the big question. What should I do with the rest of my short life? My answer is that I am writing three books to save lives from preventable industrial disasters. Those books are:
1. "Breaking the Silence, Exposing the Industrial Murder for Profit", Cambridge Book Publishing;
2. ''The Water Hammer and Gas Hammer Disaster", American Society of Mechanical Engineers;
3. "Failure Analysis and Explosion Modeling for Water Hammers and Gas Hammers."
The first two books are already contracted and planned for publication in 2026, and a contract is promised for the 2027 third book.
I am scheduled to speak as an invited speaker about these books at the Frankfurt, Germany book convention with potentially more than 120,000 visitors in October. I also go to Japan in July to present new research for gas pipeline explosions and take a combustion course at Princeton in June.
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