Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11. Larry, welcome to the program.

I'm Dr. Laura. Thanks for taking my call. Been a listener for maybe a year or so, maybe longer, but often on, but lately I just love how you always give a different perspective on things.

So I'd like to get your thoughts your perspective on this. I'm 70 back in 17. I found out I had leukemia.

I had a nasty blood clot in my leg that ruptured. I nearly died nearly lost my leg six weeks in the hospital six weeks in a nursing home.

Big, big, long recovery spent five months, five months living with one of my brothers.

And, but the thing of it is all my friends, everybody, nobody really seems to be interested in my condition, which I'm kind of surprised by nobody ever asks, oh, how's leukemia, how you doing these days, how's everything working out?

Five years of this and, okay, Larry, Larry, you just made the point five years. People can't be engrossed in you for five years.

Your brother took you in. That's a lot of caring. The people are not going to for five years keep asking how's leukemia. They're not going to do that.

Okay. That's an unreasonable expectation on your part in my opinion.

Okay. My two brothers, especially when I everybody's getting on with life and everybody expects you to do the same.

Five years they expect you to be living a life not labeling yourself every morning. A cancer patient.

People get on with their lives. I don't think I'm registering with you.

Okay. Well, if, if, when I did it, mention to my brothers, just curious, you know, how come you never asked me? They told me they didn't know I had leukemia.

I could wait a minute. I told you guys. I told you way back. No, you didn't. It's like that just befuddles me. That's all.

I have no idea what to make of that. Okay. Either new or they didn't know since you're living with one of them, that one knew.

It's a little surprising if your family doesn't chat, but I hardly think they really meant it.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I just wondered what you thought about all this. That's all.

I think you're thinking too much about it and not enough about what to do with the life you didn't lose. That's what I think. I think you're taking much too much time feeling sorry for yourself.

As opposed to making the best advantage of the death that didn't happen.

Okay. What's your long range plan?

What are you looking forward to? What are you setting up? What are you planning? What are you doing? Where's your life going? That's where your attention needs to be.

Right. Not on if everybody keeps asking you. Please.

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