My Cancer Journey

Recently my mom said to me, "you don't know how to relax."  That's kind of true.  I struggle with that a little.  This week, feeling quite sick and tired, I've been able to lay in one spot for a while doing nothing.  You know what I think about, laying on the couch? I think about how fortunate I am to have so many people support me with prayers, and cards, and presents made of food, and kind words. Behind me here are my get well cards.  Thank you so much.

T oday I went to my second chemo treatment.   It was pretty uneventful.   Chemo is pretty boring when you are doing it. There are several bags of liquid that they put into patients through an I.V. For my treatments, this takes hours. I read, wrote, and listened to music to pass the time. The only surprise was that my red blood cells were on the low side. That means someone will come to my house later this week and give me some kind of injection. They’ll have to put a needle into my stomach. Yuck.   I’m a little nervous about that. All in all things are going very well. I am thankful to God for all He’s doing, and to you. You love and support me. I am blessed.

I was in the shower washing my hair and I got hair in my mouth. But it wasn't just one.  I poked my head out of the shower and looked at myself in the mirror and there was a tuft of hair plastered to my forehead.  The next morning Charlotte gave me this haircut.  I don't want to shed hair all over the place.

Often when I interact with other people, I find myself thinking, ‘Y ou’re weird Danny boy ’. I’ve felt that way often about my cancer. When I tell people they are sad and upset.   But I don’t feel that way, and I never really did. This may help to explain why. Sometime in February I was having constant pain that was keeping me from sleeping well. That made every day life a challenge. On a Saturday I cancelled playing with Eleanor in a praise night event. On the Sunday I was scheduled to speak and I chose a message I had previously given at another church. The message was on the topic of complaining. This is a recap of what I said: Key Texts: Numbers 11:1-3 1 Corinthians 10:6,10 “Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not … complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.”  The lesson from Numbers 11 is that God hates complaining.   It is a sin. We see in the Exodus story that ...

Chemo made me feel pretty terrible for about a week.  Then I started feeling a lot better.  Now I feel pretty normal.  Normal until I start doing things. I get tired quickly. I have another week to wait before my next chemo treatment. They are supposed to be every 3 weeks. Now I can relax, eat well, exercise as much as I can and sleep well. I'm doing a lot of cooking around the house now and little projects.  It's been going well.