Hi, Peter!  Your name seems familiar... have you posted in SURVIVOR or
ABLED before?  Welcome (back), anyway.  :-)

PC>  When I think of survivor ...I only think back to those
PC>  who worked where I did for 30 years ...who didn't survive,
PC>  and those who believed in the Union and laws and rules that
PC>  governed the mamangement of the Canadian Post Office.


          Uh... you worked for the Post Office?  My father did too.  It
seemed to me, even as a kid, that he had a very high-stress job.

          I don't know much about what goes on there nowadays, but I do
recall watching how he studied for case exams.  Before the days of postal
codes there was a manual... probably a couple of hundred pages in tiny
print... which he'd have to memorize.  Mail for Bowen Island goes via West
Vancouver, for example. That's a no-brainer if you live around here &
you've actually travelled on the ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Bowen Island. 
Now add a bunch of other places all over the world which you've never been
to... consider that the routing changes from time to time, and the only
practical way to revise the manual is to cut & paste strips of paper
from the update memos... then be prepared to sort ninety letters a minute
if you expect to keep your job.  I couldn't have done it.



PC>  I had a choice to work elesewhere, but for sick parents
PC>  and needing my help....


          Sandwich Generation?  That's how some folks refer to those of us
who have dependent offspring living at home as well as aged parents who
need a lot of our time & attention.  Been there, done that... [wry
grin].



PC>  not until I was injured and had cancer and major
PC>  operations did I ever enter in the nightmare they
PC>  put me through.....and I survived...a SURVIVOR
PC>  like you say....against big odds


          Good for you!  I'm very interested in how & why some folks
manage to survive, despite the odds, while others don't.  For several weeks
I lived in a pediatric oncology ward with our daughter.  After I had
studied everything you never wanted to know about leukemia, which I had to
do in order to get us both out of there, I turned to my library book...
i.e. LOVE, MEDICINE & MIRACLES by Bernie Siegel.  Others thought I was
I was crazy.  But when I read this book I thought to myself "Wow...
that's *exactly* what I've been doing!" and resolved to do more of it.
 Nora is still alive & well, BTW, almost twenty years later.

          Now... what about you?  Seems to me you speak your mind &
you're not afraid to tackle bureaucracy over something you perceive as
unfair.  From what I've seen, these are healthy characteristics.  Any other
suggestions...??  :-)



PC>  NO matter what the odds ..... you can win!


          Uh-huh.  We did.  And so did you, apparently....  :-)



PC>  Good luck with the echo


          Thankyou!  Take care & keep in touch....  :-)




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