. . . well, not really. It seems to be going at an incredibly slow pace. I tell myself I have only three weeks of radiation to go when I feel I can’t manage another three minutes of it. And I apparently have yet to experience the worst of it, according to the docs and [...]
I start localized radiation this week. It involves outlining parts of my body with blue sharpie. That’s for the entire four weeks, not just a one time thing. My shirts, my pillow case and the toilet seat are all turning blue. I don’t know what I’m going to do. The people of MD Anderson have [...]
Last Monday, when I was so busy looking for my cell phone, i sat in the waiting room near a woman I knew. We had a conversation, one that we had had once before. I haven’t attempted to write this before now because I didn’t know if I could make sense of what I was [...]
I arrived at MD Anderson around noon and had a fruit smoothie for lunch. I went up to second floor to get a blood draw. When I finished there I went back to first floor to buy a paper to read while I waited for my 2:00 appointment with Dr. Duvic. As I sat down [...]
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I met with Dr. Donato today. She is my transplant doctor. One of the first things she said to me was, “You look like you feel really miserable.” I had been thinking prior to that comment that I was feeling relatively good today. It still hurt to walk, but otherwise . . . Oh well. [...]
(For those of you who haven’t been here for a while, it would help to scroll down and read The Bike: The Prologue, then read Tracy’s offering, then read this. Also, if you haven’t seen the video ‘Lance Armstrong: Bike Shorts Don’t Make The Man’, you might want to consider looking at that first.) When [...]
A few months ago, Rick came across a book titled, Ask and It is Givenabout manifesting one’s desires by focusing positive energy toward goals. It changed his attitude about his disease and life in general. He, as best he can – even now when in pain – focuses his attention on positive goals and envisions [...]
As most of you know, my brother John has written a novel called A Dedication. He is in Omaha this weekend to promote the book. He will be at The Bookworm this Saturday (87th & Pacific) from 1-3 pm. I would greatly appreciate it if all my Omaha friends and family could stop by for [...]
Whenever I’ve been confronted with something I deem monumental, I have a tendency, I think, to fall back on that question. I remember when Tracy was pregnant with Zach and was wondering how we would measure up as parents. My response was that millions of babies are born every year and we were certainly as [...]