Deduction

I am my father’s son. Like him, I tend towards empirical, deductive reasoning:

• Lymphoma, the most treatable form of lung cancer is treatable with a pill.
• My father is going to be given chemotherapy (which is not a pill).
• My father does not have lymphoma.
• My father has a much more serious form of lung cancer.
• The odds for his long–term survival, not that they were good to begin with, just dropped significantly.

I am beyond the ability to express the depths of my saddness.