Open note to @jeffjarvis on travel and health

With apologies for this public exhortation from a near stranger (we met only once), but this morning, 59,289 of us had this note from you in our Twitter feeds, so perhaps that gives me license:

An 11-day, 4-city trip 3 weeks after cancer surgery was not the wisest thing I’ve ever done.

To agree:  Your BuzzMachine posts, tweets and media appearances are too important, even when we disagree with you (as I have on occasion; e.g., Assange), to encourage you to undergo major travel now.  In 2007 lost my intrepid, cancer patient wife a couple of weeks after a birthday cruise during which she contracted the beginnings of pneumonia and thereafter declined to slow down to give her compromised immune system a chance to fight it.  Don’t let a “once-in-a-lifetime trip” become truly a once-in-a-lifetime trip.  --Dennis

Comments

[Rob Paterson]

I second that Dennis - We need you more than ever Jeff

[jeff jarvis]

Thanks, Dennis. I am trying to take it easier on this trip but, yes, it's still a trip. I'm quite lucky: in both prostate and thyroid cancers, had only surgery (contained!) and no followup treatment so far. Still, I listen to your exhortation and take your pain and what-if's very seriously. Thanks for the concern.
-jeff