One of the biggest “kick in the nuts” the universe can hit you with is the dreaded cancer and here I am telling you to be positive. It’s easier said than done and I know it. After doing a little reading about the disease I was afflicted with, my next question was mortality rate. When …
We all have bad days. Even my kids have bad days. I can remember my mom or dad saying, “well didn’t you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?” It was always in response to me just being in a foul mood. Sometimes we know why we’re having a bad day …
I write almost every day. My goal is a thousand words a day. That’s almost three pages of single spaced text. I journal everyday as well. I’m still trying to find the journal I really like the most. So far I’m using a simple journal from Amazon, one from BestSelf, and another from Monk Journal. …
Two days ago marked the halfway point to Day +100. At Day +100 they’ll do another bone marrow biopsy to determine how well things are progressing. While I’ve had a few tests done in the meantime and things look promising, nothing is definitive yet. I’ve been disappointed often enough and have seen things go sideways …
An actual update. I’ve been home for a total of 25 days. In some ways it seems like a lot and other ways it seems like I just left the hospital. I’m slowly starting to feel a bit better each day. Some days are better than others. Everybody wants to know how I’m feeling and …
During one of my hospital stays, I was getting ready for bed. I had flossed and brushed my teeth. I had moisturized my nose (I was having frequent nose bleeds if I wasn’t constantly taking care of it). As I laid down, I noticed what felt like a knot in my back. If you’ve ever …
I had this strange idea. I’ve been doing strength training for over 25 years. Picking up something heavy isn’t something I just give up because my situation has changed. What it does though is give me an edge in working through my current diagnosis and it’s subsequent ordeal. I might not be deadlifting 600lbs right …
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Nietzsche I’ll preface this section by saying that sometimes even those fighting with the strongest will to live can still succumb to cancer or disease. Even with all the why in the world, there’s only so much the body can take …
It’s not so hard for me to remember being a kid and having that overwhelming sense of accomplishment and winning whenever I’d learn something new. I had just found out that the sound of thunder was actually caused by the shock wave of the now heated and rapidly expanding air molecules hitting the cooler molecules. …
