I like using toast as an id on various sites,
about four years ago, my doctor checked through all my x rays, breathing tests, and blood tests, and made some mathematical calculatios.
He knew I could be calm and logical about it so he said
"At this rate, and without any great advances in medicine,
you have 7 years left on your lungs. "
That was 4 years ago, like I said.
I felt like toast.
blackened, and useless.
and I let it sink in.
and used toast as part of my email address, and user ids.
But now I savour every day that I have the energy to go out and enjoy things.
I feel my lung getting heavy on active days, and I take a day or two to get over it.
But now I have learned another definition of toast.
"1. The act of raising a glass and drinking in honor of or to the health of a person or thing.
2. A person receiving much attention or acclaim: the toast of Broadway."
So now when I go out, I really go out where I want to, and see whom I want to.
And I hope that I leave people feeling better than before they met me.
So even though I use toast bread as my avatar, I think a beverage, a bubble, or a Broadway light would be more accurate.
Three more years will be good.
But they better not be bad years, I can take the bad days, though.