Blog of Random Thoughts
Resilience is the deliberate act of moving forward through difficulties while choosing what endures, turning these experiences into lasting meaning for the people who matter most. Today we start the journey to Spain where we can hopefully better combat the cancer. It was important to Mel that we bring the kids this time as she…
As more people start reading my blog a comment that came up was that it seemed like they were looking into our lives. One of Mel’s coworkers commented about it and she said that it was all public. It was easier to share updates over this as opposed to trying to keep everyone up to…
I had to go for my CT scan this morning and then have my pump disconnected. Arriving at the hospital parking lot I had found a space but with the truck you need to back into the spaces and I could not figure out a method to actually get the truck in because there was…
It amuses me how easy it is to forget things about the chemo treatment. It has only been two weeks but yesterday so many things happened that I forgot some of the effects. I forgot that when I eat my whole mouth locks up and it is very difficult to swallow. I forgot that I…
This is the third session of Chemo and things are a bit better today compared to my first two sessions. The port seems to be getting better as there was less discomfort when they inserted the needle into the port. I could feel the needle being inserted, but the sensation of the fluid going into…
The amount of support that we have received over the weekend has been surreal. Mel does not think that we deserve all of the love that we have received and she has made comments about how we need to pay this forward to everyone. I reminded her that people have wanted to help us out…
I had mentioned on Friday when I was speaking with the social worker while writing my legacy document that I got emotional at one point. Over the weekend, I have seen numerous posts from people I have interacted with over the years sharing positive things about me and my family, and it gave me a…
Mel wanted to be involved in my post today and gave me a list of things that she wanted to discuss, so this is a joint posting. I would like to point that some content may be written under duress and do not reflect the views of the author. If there is something that you…
This morning I woke up to quite the surprise on how quickly the GoFundMe had spread. Mel wants to write a joint post outlining our appreciation for people. I have told her that I have written about things like that repeatedly, but tomorrow morning we will write a joint post thanking people for it. What…
In the last week I have been documenting a lot of what has been happening, mostly so I have a record and so I can come back and remember what occurred each day. I have missed writing about positive aspects with my writing being more clinical outlining everything. This is mostly due to the fact…