Sooner or later, the survival rate of everyone drops to zero...

Sooner or later, you then start the first blog; which is what I do.
Maybe, the reason is somewhere behind the last events in my life. As background, I am in the beginning of my 40s, usually had daily 3+ km swims and 50+ kms bike rides in the morning. It seemed like the common causes of the diseases of the Western culture are light-years away.
Just five weeks ago, my toe began to develop an inflammatory wound. Over that weekend, it got from bad to worse, and I ended up in the emergency ambulance. The meds took care of the toe but noticed a bad circulation in the corresponding foot. A week passed until I found an angiologist, a M.D. for blood vessels. He diagnosed a vascular obliteration. An additional blood test showed that I had way too high platelet count (the blood cells who keep a wound from bleeding forever). The next step was a bone marrow aspiration. Not funny. They more or less turn a screw into your hip bone, turn it some times, and, finally, force it up and down, slightly. Then the extracted hard and software is analyzed. At this point, in around 1.2 people in 1000.000 you can see quite strange things going on. Compared to healthy human beings, the blood cell precursors just run crazy. They are just too much. genetics has it that in my case, it is a developed (in contrast to inherited) mutation of a gene, i.e. the famous JAK2 mutation.
Lo and behold, since Wednesday last week, I know that I do have polycythemia vera.

This means that my live expectancy has not only significantly dropped, and that chances are good that I will suffer from a stroke or another vascular obliteration...In the lucky case it will take around 10 years until all will slowly pass into the highly malignant state of the classical(?) leukemia.

It seems like a felt state of publicity helps. Well, I do not know. How could I?
In only five weeks, a former person died, another one was born, but as an old man. I tend to be a Buddhist, but this was not how I thought about the whole business.

More to follow, sooner or later...