THE FOOTNOTES

Good news from my cancer doctor this week. Six years and four months ago, I had my first operation. I completed my chemo treatment more than five years ago, and have been checked regularly since then. Finally my doctor pronounced me cured of colon cancer. Whew! Thank Heavens, and a good wife, I made it this far.
The banner I am wearing I wore last year at a cancer event at Tolland High. I guess I kind of anticpated the cured pronouncent. There will be another event in June, and I expect to wear it again.
I hope my experience will convince everyone that early dectection makes a big difference. Had I followed my doctor's suggestion more than 10 years ago, that I have a colonoscopy, I might have saved myself a lot of problems.