Side Effects
I should have read the fine print when I signed up for cancer. They sure didn’t tell me about all the stuff that might happen during the course of battling this disease. Sure, I was warned about some of the…
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God
Why Jesus?
Walking through the halls of MD Anderson is a multicultural experience. There are patients and doctors from all over the world. On busy days there exists a steady cacophony of various languages interspersed with medical jargon. It is impossible not…
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Overwhelmed
Have you ever been exhausted from receiving good news? Me either, until yesterday. My day started at 5 am. I had an early appointment at the hospital and needed to catch the shuttle by seven. I’m not sleeping well, anyway,…
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There is a Reason
I remember sitting in my office after working out, just a few months after my Dad passed away from lung cancer. The last year had been rough. I had been home from Iraq less than a year when Christi and I…
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Another Detour
What started as a seemingly harmless cough over the weekend now has me admitted back into the hospital. During my scheduled visit on Monday, the biggest concern was a growing skin rash that is attributed to GVHD. I did mention…
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Cautious Optimism
If I had been given the chance to write my own leukemia story, I don’t think I could have scripted a better narrative about the three weeks since the transplant. I might have stretched a little and wrote a story…
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Paroled
I got out of the hospital about noon last Wednesday, February 5, 2014. I was in exactly three weeks, including only two weeks post-transplant. This is such an incredible blessing since I was told to expect to be in four…
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Twice Ransomed
How would you feel about someone if he saved your life? What if you didn’t even know him? He is completely anonymous. The only things you know about him are his age, gender, and blood type. Even more so, how…
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Humbled Again
I never really did like group physical training (PT). Part of the reason is that I often felt I could push myself harder alone and therefore make better use of my time. That wasn’t the case in Airborne and Air…
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Thankful
It’s hard to feel thankful when you’re throwing up into a tub for the umpteenth time. In fact, it’s hard to feel anything other than miserable. Add to that headaches, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and swollen, infected ears, and “miserable”…
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