In some ways I simply want to know what's what. I don't care if it's good news or if it's bad news as long as I know what the news is. I believe it was W Churchill who said that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - one of the wisest things I've ever heard. Unless of course there's a big bear running right at me at which point the bear would be the cause of the fear and not the fear itself. Being the fear. Or something.
Let's say my thumb hurts. Quickly I come to the conclusion that I have thumb cancer. The best thing for me to do is to go to my thumb cancer specialist for testing and an accurate diagnosis. We're on a first name basis as thumb cancer is one of my more popular cancers.
"Give it to me straight, doc," I say. "Is it the Big C of the thumb?"
Sometimes it is. But that's OK. I just want to know. I can deal with about anything as long as I have the facts. It's that weird, imprecise, free-floating angst that eats up guts.
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