This is my friend Tony dreaming of spring.
Winter and chemotherapy
are keeping him and his bike
inside right now.
Sweet dreams, my friend. Sweet dreams!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Incisional Hernia
It turns out that about 15% of abdominal surgery patients develop incisional hernias.
So NOW they tell me!
My rectal surgeon referred me to a hernia surgeon to get mine fixed. This will be surgery number three for me. Cancer certainly leaves its mark!
I saw my rectal surgeon yesterday for my three monthly check up. He put his nifty little camera up my bum again to see how things are healing inside. Carla was with me and got to watch the whole thing on the monitor. She said my insides looked pink and healthy. I thought she was pretty lucky to be there. Not everybody gets to see this side of me. My surgeon told me that my anastomosis was almost invisible in places and that I was a great healer.
From all reports I'd have to say I'm doing a good job keeping it together. :-)) Too bad I'm not doing so well keeping it all in...
So NOW they tell me!
My rectal surgeon referred me to a hernia surgeon to get mine fixed. This will be surgery number three for me. Cancer certainly leaves its mark!
I saw my rectal surgeon yesterday for my three monthly check up. He put his nifty little camera up my bum again to see how things are healing inside. Carla was with me and got to watch the whole thing on the monitor. She said my insides looked pink and healthy. I thought she was pretty lucky to be there. Not everybody gets to see this side of me. My surgeon told me that my anastomosis was almost invisible in places and that I was a great healer.
From all reports I'd have to say I'm doing a good job keeping it together. :-)) Too bad I'm not doing so well keeping it all in...
Monday, January 16, 2012
Extra! Extra!
Read All About It!
If you thought the movie was great, now you can read the book!
That's all 12 months of my cancer blog
squished into 112 pages...
...including many of your comments,
plus never before seen photographs
from our Alaska Cruise at the end of treatment!
Thanks for the inspiration, Lisa (Shents). Carla and I presented each of our children with their own copy. That was the best part of the project. We realized that my blog was the only record of my journey through cancer.
I was able to make the book completely accessible on the publisher's web site if anyone is interested in viewing it online. Just click on this image.
We hope you enjoy the book. It was a lot of fun putting it together.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time there lived a young man who loved his Father very much.
When the young man was diagnosed with cancer he did not ask his Father, "Why me?"
Instead, he asked his Father to "Pretty please (with sugar on top)" accompany him on the dark and scary journey that lay ahead.
And it came to pass that a very loving Heavenly Father heard the pleas of his son and granted his request.
From that very moment the tender mercies of the Lord began to pour forth upon the young cancer patient to the comfort of his soul and the blessing of he and his family.
In due course, four angelic emissaries from Cancerland emerged in his path. Their names were Carole of London, Fiona of Bollington, Angela of Kent, and Tony of Matlock.
The strength and support, the example and encouragement, the love and laughter of these four friends proved most effective in vanquishing the vicissitudes of cancer.
This is but one example of the team effort needed to fight cancer. Truly the young man was blessed in his journey.
Ever after he remembered with fondness these four fighting cancer warriors and the unbounded love of a Heavenly Father for each of His children.
May we all live happily ever after to the end of our days in the arms of our Father's love.
When the young man was diagnosed with cancer he did not ask his Father, "Why me?"
Instead, he asked his Father to "Pretty please (with sugar on top)" accompany him on the dark and scary journey that lay ahead.
And it came to pass that a very loving Heavenly Father heard the pleas of his son and granted his request.
From that very moment the tender mercies of the Lord began to pour forth upon the young cancer patient to the comfort of his soul and the blessing of he and his family.
In due course, four angelic emissaries from Cancerland emerged in his path. Their names were Carole of London, Fiona of Bollington, Angela of Kent, and Tony of Matlock.
The strength and support, the example and encouragement, the love and laughter of these four friends proved most effective in vanquishing the vicissitudes of cancer.
This is but one example of the team effort needed to fight cancer. Truly the young man was blessed in his journey.
Ever after he remembered with fondness these four fighting cancer warriors and the unbounded love of a Heavenly Father for each of His children.
May we all live happily ever after to the end of our days in the arms of our Father's love.
The End
“The Lord's tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ.” ~David A. Bednar
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