blog entries: orig. on PostHope
When I first learned that I had cancer (while attending Campers’ Week at Pinewoods), a good friend urged me to spend as much time as possible outside, walking in the sunshine.
And when my father-in-law heard last September that I had cancer, he wrote a very supportive note with many kind thoughts. This is the most relevant today: .…
I’m sorry not to have posted for so long. tl;dr: Convalescing takes patience, but all is well.
I’ve been home for three weeks now, and I’m very very happy to be here with my family and kitties. Gradually over these weeks I’ve reduced the pain killers they had me take, and gradually I’ve been able to expand what foods I can eat (almost anything at this point, but I need to be careful to eat it slowly and to not eat too much).…
It’s been a long slog, but things started looking a little brighter yesterday, and this morning Erik got the word that he could go home today!
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I’d like to repeat my thanks to each of you for your continuing encouragement and well wishes. This is dragging on longer than we had hoped, and it’s your cheers and whispers and messages and poetry that is keeping us going.
I felt I needed to share an example of the latter with everyone, from a whilom coworker not normally known for his Nashian versification: .…
Monday and Tuesday were pretty frustrating, feeling like nothing was changing, but then things started happening: …