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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A blog about faith and fighting leukemia.
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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To borrow a quote from another Dickens’ novel, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”1 He was writing about the period leading up to the French Revolution, but I might well describe this time in…
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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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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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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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Happy birthday to me! A few of you who know my actual birthday are confused right now. Maybe it’s the medication, you’re thinking. No, Happy Second Birthday to me! We’re celebrating the day, January 22, 2014, that I received my…
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I don’t have the energy for a full post. Some family and friends don’t have Facebook, so this is my way of communicating to them. The transplant is scheduled for 8 or 9 pm, depending on when the cells get…
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