Why press-up at all......?

Press-ups on wind swept moor and wild rocky shore line, by a christmas house and an Ancient Monument these are all my small acts of defiance against a brewing storm.
Actually the storm isn't so much as brewing but raging about in my body causing damage and chaos wherever it hits ground.
The storm I am talking about is Cancer (big C!), and the cancer I am talking about is Non Hodgkins, High Grade T-Cell Lymphoma...pithy title!! Trouble is that this lymphoma isn't your normal run of the mill, respond to chemo treatment cancer...it is apparently a very rare and unusual cancer with an alarming speed of replication and an equally alarming propensity to not get better that easily.
So me and Rachel have this crazy choice, one we have been to and fro with for a few days now. The choice goes something like this.....
option a- go for a tried and tested regime of chemo that is very doable not too scary (barring all the side effects and possible complications) for 18 weeks and see how it responds to that. The doctors tell us that they don't really like the odds but 30% sounds crap.....1 in 3 sounds pretty good. it's all how you look at it.
option b- go for something called SMILE ( BTW it is not much to smile about) mainly because its a brutal chemo, mostly inpatient...and so nasty that it isn't done that often...or better to say hardly at all.
that leaves...
option c- Do nothing, and buy time with steroids (not the type that will get me doing hundreds of press-ups!) then I could just see friends, and not be ill for a while, but no chance of getting better.
this option is off the cards, but I do admit it has been on the cards every now and again....especially today as I had woken up resigned to the fact that the best chance I had was SMILE but now I have been recommended to maybe stay clear because it's so nasty and risky.
Recommended by friends! But not just any friends these are friends who know what they are taking about. Turns out that amongst my friends I have a haematology consultant in London, a senior Consultant in Yeovil and a Dr.V In the States who is just a genius doctor who knows people who know stuff about this stuff.
Between them they have started the doubt to grow that I should explore other options...Trials, Stem cell, etc etc.
Well that's the science and medical stuff. I wanted to be honest with friends reading this because that background I think helps to understand my struggle at the moment and the importance of doing those press-ups all about the place.
For me, the most important things are these:my family, my Rachel and the dogs that share our lives with us. My friends... close by and crazy and always up for an adventure and my friends  far far away some of whom I only see every few years or every few decades, not that that matters at all!  Being close to nature, spending time outside, sometimes just walking, sometimes running or biking and sometimes swimming  in cold rivers,  beautiful lakes and the awesome sea.
These are the things that matter and these are things that I'm not prepared to give up just yet, these are the things that it will always be worth fighting for.
So I will continue to do my press-ups ( the doctors have assured me I can do them in hospital), and I will enter this storm knowing I am well prepared because I am strong but more than that I have the best people in the whole world surrounding me.
If you feel like doing the odd press-up or two that would be great too.