My 67y dad was (almost accidentally - he was being scanned for something else) diagnosed with an advanced stage of multiple myeloma in 2003 and was given a single-digit% chance to live, at most 6 mos. Figuring he had little to lose, he signed up for experimental stem-cell replacement therapy at the U of MN hospital which was expected to increase his lifespan from 6mo to 2-3yr.
It was arduous but by 2006 he was pronounced *entirely cancer free* living another 12 years before finally succumbing to pneumonia (more or less the result of a severe stroke a few years before).
As I see, today that same condition/age I see survival rates now north of 60%.
Advances in cancer treatments have really been remarkable.
I'm thinking you mean a bone marrow transplant. (Which is a form of stem cell transplant.) Admittedly when my dad was dying of renal cell carcinoma around the same time, I was reading there was an experimental program to treat that with a bone marrow transplant as well. The results of that were pretty much 20% of the time it cured it, 60% of the time it did nothing and 20% of the time it killed the patient in about 2 weeks. Admittedly we didn't go any further looking into it. (Hopefully the odds a better these days.)
But you mentioned the person comes up behind you and passes you, so I have to assume you're in the left lane and said person passes on your right, which is unsafe and used to be illegal in some states.
Well passing on the right is still illegal here in Massachusetts but not on the highway. (It's legal to pass on the right on a divided road, illegal on undivided road.) I could also mention here in Mass the law on the highway is that the right most lane is the travel lane and the other lanes are passing lanes. Good luck getting anybody to obey that law.
Iraq didn't have them.
The reason they didn't have them was because Saddam got rid of them
The reason he got rid of them wasn't because he was a good guy. He simply thought the easiest way out of sanctions was to get rid of them but keep the ability and knowledge to build them. Then inspectors would find nothing and sign off on getting rid of the sanctions. Once that happen restart his programs and start making his fun stuff again. I am also under the impression you're supposed to replace your chemical weapons every so often anyway because being caustic also means you can't store them forever.
I attribute my success to intelligence, guts, determination, honesty, ambition, and having enough money to buy people with those qualities.