6/12- Test Day
“You might feel like you’re wetting the table,” the nurse said to me. “You mean it’s going to feel like I’m peeing on myself?” I...


6/12-To Puzzle or Not Puzzle
Sometimes symbolism taps you on the shoulder; sometimes it slaps you right in the face. Jaimie has gotten really into puzzles recently....


6/10- Calm Before the Tests
This week is treatment number five. I’m a third of the way through, and that means it’s time for tests. Three to be exact: two MRIs and a...


6/8
I’m trying to learn how to pray better. Now to the atheists reading this blog, I hear your eyes rolling. And it’s fine. Sometimes praying...


6/6- Bright Side or Bust
I’ve noticed that having something as pressing as cancer has made being upset about other things difficult. Like the other day, someone...


6/5 Pinky and the Chemo Brain
I had to go to Myspace to find this picture, but I feel like it is a good visual representation of one of the biggest side effects I’ve...


6/2- The Sperm Bank
One of the possible side effects for chemo is lowering your fertility. So for men of my age who get cancer they suggest that you freeze...


6/1- Existing Conditions
In 1998 I backpacked across Europe. My friend and I had taken an over night train from Munich to Venice and we got there early, like 6 or...