Throughout a brand new interview with The Sound Lab in promotion of his group 7D7D, Tim Commerford spoke about his prostate most cancers battle. Whereas he has been coping with it now for practically three-years, he says he’s in a greater place emotionally than he was earlier on in his battle.
”I’m 56 and I’m feeling good. I’ve most cancers and I’m now not crying about it. That’s an enormous factor for me. And to couple that with like being in a band and being happy with it and difficult myself, I really feel like my life is full proper now and I prefer it,” he stated.
When requested for an replace on the standing of his most cancers, Commerford replied: “I imply, I’ve it. It’s a type of issues. And folks will typically ask, ‘Is it gone?’ And it’s, like, most cancers — I don’t care if in case you have pores and skin most cancers or prostate most cancers or lung most cancers, and let’s say you get remedy and it goes into remission, you’re not ever going to be saying, ‘Cool, it’s gone. It’s gone. I’m not gonna get it.’ You’re all the time gonna have it. It’s a darkish passenger that you simply carry with you and you are worried about and you must get checkups and these type of issues. So it’s all the time there.”
He continued: “There was a couple of two-year interval the place — I wouldn’t have been in a position to do that interview just a few years in the past, as a result of I’d have simply gotten too emotional. You’d ask me about most cancers and I’d have began crying and that was the toughest factor. That was tougher than any of the remedy or something. It was, like, ‘Whoa, am I gonna be crying now all over the place I’m going? Is that gonna be the way in which it’s?’ And someplace alongside the road, as a result of I keep in form, I’m happy with that, and I do a variety of exercising and I’m staying in actually fine condition, I believe, and for a 56-year-old dude, I really feel like I’m in actually fine condition. For a dude with most cancers, I really feel like I’m in actually fine condition. And so these two issues actually have empowered me.
“I used to know this man. I’ve a cadaver hamstring tendon in my shoulder. So I received surgical procedure on my shoulder one time and the physician was, like, ‘Your shoulder is gonna be 75 % as sturdy, your left shoulder as your proper shoulder,’ and this man that I knew, he’s this outdated man, he’s, like, ‘Effectively, so you may work it out 200 % greater than you’d have and it’s nonetheless gonna be 125 % stronger than it might have been.’ And in order that’s how I dwell my life. And so right here I’m with most cancers and I’m out simply difficult myself bodily and artistically. And it’s empowered me — to have the ability to have most cancers and do this stuff is one thing that I’m happy with. And so I’ve turned this actually detrimental factor that made me cry into one thing that I’m truly happy with who I’m and what I’m doing proper now with it. Is it gonna make me dwell longer, most cancers? I don’t suppose so, however I’m gonna get 200 % stronger and see,” the Rage Towards the Machine bassist added.