Randy Pausch is getting slightly better.
Celebrated Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch still expects to die, but maybe not as soon as doctors predicted.
Pausch — who shared his terminal pancreatic cancer battle with the world last month — recently found out that the palliative chemotherapy that he has taken for six weeks to try slowing the spread of his cancer appears to be doing more. The tumors in his spleen are gone, and the dozen tumors in his liver either are stable or shrinking.
Doctors estimate this could buy him an extra two to four months of life.
“Said another way, I may have just doubled my life expectancy,” said Pausch, who turned 47 Tuesday.
Via Tribune-Review
Sara Gold 9:51 am on October 29, 2007 Permalink
Some lessons from Randy Pausch’s last lecture that especially moved me:
1. Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
2. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
3. Never lose the child-like wonder.
4. If we do something which is pioneering, we will get arrows in the back. But at the end of the day, a whole lot of people will have a whole lot of fun.
5. Be good at something; it makes you valuable.
6. If you live your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.
Check out the tribute quiz on the lecture at http://www.mystudiyo.com : you can add your own questions at the end of the quiz.
http://www.mystudiyo.com/activity.php?act=558