…some have tails. Tweet
I bought this for my wife. She’s earned it one hundred times over already. Tweet
The words they use are “Stage Four”, “Slow Growing”, “Terminal”…the words we choose to hear are “Quality of Life”, “Pain Control”, “Refuse to Lose”. Life is battle. You can either join the battle and make a difference or play it safe and bayonet the wounded. Choose before life chooses for you, just keep in mind that no General hands out
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FWIW, cancer does not kill people, it kills souls, creativity, humor, passion and purpose. Everything precious in a human life is taken away and time is stolen in meaningless suffering. It demeans life to the point that faith becomes just a word. The only response to cancer is to show an amazing grace, to show another person that their life
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A Recent Review of “You Mean, Besides the Cancer” by a judge at the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards: In reading this book, one naturally develops a remarkable respect for its author. He had delved into territory that many men face (when asked to become the primary caregiver for a cancer-stricken wife), yet few document, or at least few
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Evil has many names, but because it’s called cancer people have more empathy. Because it’s called cancer people open up and share the loss of their loved ones with me, even though I didn’t ask. My burden is heavy enough; the story of your loss weakens me. Because it’s called cancer people want to help. Sometimes the best help is
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Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary, and in spite of so many recent breaths filled with doubt and fear, the answer to your question is “yes.” Yes, I would do it all over again. ALL of it. She was, and still is, worth it… and more. I love you, Babe! Tweet
…to the show that never ends. This morning was our appointment with the oncologist to get the results of Carole’s latest set of scans and to get some answers as to why she is feeling so crappy lately. I’ll be concise: Carole still has the same number of growths as her last scan in May. The growths are the same
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Cancer is insidious in so many ways. It demands the sacrifice of body, mind, and soul, and in the midst of all this pain is a sense of isolation that is so stark that it has no word in my language. Once you or a family member is diagnosed with cancer you become a victim, a patient, a fighter, and
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When she walks she lists from port to starboard. I follow her around the house should she fall. She is so weak that a simple stroll across our humble home is a marathon, a challenge, Everest on flat ground. We had new scans taken yesterday. The CD with the images sits in the car. I don’t have the courage to
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