As an old RN, one of the most difficult things is to accurately predict an individual's course

[Ms. Toad]

6. Yup.

The motto in our family is that when we hear hoofbeats we should expect - at least - a zebra, and not infrequently a unicorn.

My daughter and I tend to be outliers, which makes our decision making more challenging. It hit home for me with my cancer diagnosis. I had to make a decision on very short notice about whether to do radiation (due the spacing of the rest of the medical and other dominoes in my life). The choice was to risk a relatively high rate of recurrence of the same tumor - or to treat with radiation and create a very small risk of a very deadly cancer. Given my tendency to be an outlier, had I not had to make a very quick decision, I would likely have decided not to have it.

It is the only medical decision I've made that I have not been absolutely comfortable with once I had made the decision - even when the predicted outcome was not a positive one. I crave information to make those decisions, and was unable to obtain it before the decsision was made.

I see that tendency here, as well - when it is not my life, or my family's life directly at risk - but it is indirectly at risk based on the outcome of Trump's illness. So I hate that I don't have the informaiton I crave.