A number of you have been asking about the results following the original post. I received the results the other day and have not called the oncologist yet. He is not so much a numbers man, as a wellness doctor. As long as you seem to be doing well, he is happy. I seem to [...]

One of my most favourite pictures of all time. At least from my library.
This is a picture of Carys, my niece, playing across the street from our house in the school yard. She was running around, up ladders, down chutes and slides, around stairs, through the tunnels. All the time trying to run away from [...]

No cancer patient does not ask that question.
Why?
Why Cancer?
Why me?
Why now?
There are no answers to these questions. Really not one. I should end this blog entry right here.
I am surprised by the number of cancer patients and supporting family members who are or have become devout believers in God. Some blame the Devil for their [...]

This is one of my most favourite of pictures. Phillip, my brother inlaw, had a pool put in his backyard. He can’t swim a stroke.
Some moments are just meant to be captured.
King of his domain.

It was bound to happen this way.
We met with the oncologist, the ever lovable Dr David Hedley. The results are not in. It takes apparently 5 radiologists to come up with the results. They consult and deliberate to make sure the results are accurate. Love them for it.
We should have the results by Monday coming [...]

My sisters and I moved to Canada on August 12, 1968. Funny how some dates stick in your head. My parents Landed in 1967 in time for the World Expo. They were setting things up for the rest of us in Montreal.
I knew nothing about Canada. Too buy surviving being the only coloured kid in [...]

Sleeping on a park bench in Mexico City. You can almost see the radio that was playing all the time.

I lost the month of February.
I thought I was doing well toward the end of last week, only to be thwarted by, what I can only call, a tsunami of events.
Turns out that it is quite difficult to overcome the effects of Neulasta+cold+chemo+diarrhea. Takes more than my patience can put up with.
Each one of these [...]

Rorschach Reflection – 3

Let your imagination soar.

Not really, just seemed that way. I got my Neulasta shot as directed on Monday February 8th. As you may know by now, Neulasta kicks the living daylights out of me. Far worse than the chemo. The week is plagued with a constant temperature, low but constant. Extreme fatigue accentuated by bone aches that seem [...]