BBB,
I certainly wouldn't say your are nitpicking, especially when it comes down to something as important as life.
I believe most doctors do they best they can explaining the statistics of life projection after one is diagnosed with cancer. I also had one -- about 6 months -- and it was a good faith projection based upon what the doctor knew of my disease at the time. But neither lung cancer nor life is constant. Change, however, is constant and change makes statistical projection for life after cancer little more than a good faith educated guess. I wrote more about the difficulty of using statistics to forecast life after cancer here.
My portion of wasted life involved fretting away the NED (no evidence of disease) periods during my treatment. I should have been engaged doing things I enjoy. After all, in choosing treatment, I chose life but I wasted the extra life I was granted. I tell you this to suggest you not worry about how much time you have but rather worry about what you are going to do with the time you have. That, in my opinion, is productive concern.
Stay the course.
Tom
