What battle are you currently fighting? Is it a physical one? Mental? Emotional? Spiritual? Relational? We all have our battles and I believe no battle is necessarily worse than another in the sense that each battle carries often the same emotions of defeat, loss, grief, pain, frustration, etc., just the circumstances look different. The journeys,…
Tomorrow I should be busting out of here and boy, I couldn’t be more ready! In my head, I thought these days would go pretty smoothly, but they’ve been proving to be harder and harder as they go on. Chemotherapy sure does a number to the body, which to me, hopefully says that it’s still…
Packing what I’ve now deemed my “hospital bag” once again, was hard to do. I was packing for many unknowns, a cancer journey that I’m still working on accepting, and just wishing I could be home. I thought I was getting to the point of accepting leukemia, but it’s easy to accept it when things…
My oncologist called yesterday and the first thing she asked was if Dan was around to hear the results. Immediately I started to panic and thought oh no, maybe it’s not what we thought it was. We were thinking that I had little to no leukemia in my blood, but maybe this wasn’t the case?…
Oh to try and put today into words… Today Dan and I headed to Ann Arbor for the first of MANY appointments in the oncology department. We decided that we are getting to know the University Hospital QUITE well. My appointments today were located in the children’s hospital, which was a change of scenery for…
I’ll never forget where I was. And I’m sure you haven’t either – when you were told about your diagnosis, when your loved one passed away, when you found out your job was ending. We often remember the most trivial of details, and yet at the moment, one single moment, everything changed. I’ll never forget…
