Museums and the marathon runner

Museums and the marathon runner

In Christopher Ingraham's article (June 13, 2014), Christopher Post says, "In the United States there are more museums than Starbucks and McDonald's - taken together." We believe that museums are important cultural and educational institutions. However, they are also silent superstars in the entertainment industry. With more than 800 million live visits a year, they surpass amusement parks and major sporting events, according to the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). But American museums are much more than popular and numerous. These are cultural and educational gems that play a crucial role. They are community elders who tell the stories of our American neighborhoods. Grandmother Bittner from the Institute for Museum and Library Studies (IMLS) said in the

Washington Post article:

"Many of these institutions, especially in small towns and rural areas, are historical societies and history museums, we love our history and are very interested in the local history of our cities, villages, and counties.

The story of how I visited and admired so many small museums began almost eight years ago when I faced a scary scenario. Diagnosed with prostate cancer, my doctor's instructions were clear and brutal. "We recognized this problem early, lost weight, but at the end of the year you have to be careful." It means either an operation or an irradiation.
He was convinced that both procedures would suffice; However, I was terrified of hell. When you hear this diagnosis, "you have cancer," a thousand things come to your head at one go, but somehow the whole world stops at the same time. What treatment options do you have? I need to look at each treatment ... I need to look at the surgeons ... What if I can not do it? What happens to my wife? What happens to my family? ... I want to get this thing out of me ... how do you study this stuff? I want this to be done before the end of the year ... why am I ... why not me. My thoughts were running, running, running. Whom do I tell? When will I tell them? Should I tell you? My ideas were just competitions, competitions, competitions.

It was in June 2010. I was 54 years old, a professor, a husband, and a father. Early this year my wife had been in the hospital for 34 days. Should I tell my wife? Was his condition worse? He was already concerned about unemployment. Allow me to tell him Three boys were all in high school and they did pretty well. the oldest would start college in the fall. Would my oldest son give up on his sports allowance to stay with his parents in the home? Even if she had studied at university if she knew I was fighting against cancer, how would this affect her academically? Who should I say? Tell me, my son? I say everything I do not tell anyone