Am I doing as well as I did before cancer?

Yesterday, after Alan has completed his daily water exercises, he asked me if he was as mobile as he was before he was taken down by MM. Unfortunately, I had to tell him no, he was not. First of all, he's 12 years older. He's 66, not 54. That makes a difference. Second, he almost died three times. Third his body had been atrophied for several years from non-use. However, on the plus side, he is doing so much better than he has done in 12 years. It's amazing how much he has improved in the last year. One of the reasons for that is probably because we stopped him from taking interferon. We had noticed that after each treatment he was very weak and barely able to walk, so we stopped it. Cold turkey. We should have weaned him off it, I supposed, but we didn't. He lived through the non-weaning process and determined he was going to get to a place where he could walk to the mail box, walk around a ship while we cruised the Caribbean. He was going to be well enough to hold his grandchildren and play games with them. He is doing that and more. So, there is light at the end of the tunnel, and this is not the first tunnel through which we've passed in 12 years. It is the last of many. ttfn