by Tina | Jul 28, 2024 | Thoughts
July 28, 2024 We’re often reminded that there are no stupid questions. but I get asked one every single day at the cancer clinic that I think defies that logic. They ask me every single morning whether I’ve travelled out of the country in the last day. One day, I’m...
by Tina | Jul 23, 2024 | Education
https://deepwaterdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Armed-with-Nothing.mp4 All my cancer treatments, beginning in March, have been leading me to this point; today’s high dose chemotherapy treatment and the reinfusion of my stem cells on Thursday. It’s been 8 hours...
by Tina | Jul 22, 2024 | Thoughts
I recently read Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search For Meaning”. Frankl’s core message is that humans can make it through just about anything if they can hold a vision of the future in their mind It’s been 5 months since I was told I have Multiple Myeloma, a cancer...
by Tina | Jul 16, 2024 | Updates
I took a big test today-it had 5.2 million questions and took 7 hours with almost constant surveillance (I’m sure they were making sure I didn’t cheat). If I passed the test, I could be done with the process that tells my bone marrow to produce and send stem cells...
by Tina | Jul 14, 2024 | Education, Updates
Here’s my latest update, along with details about the reality I’ll be facing (as far as I know without having actually experienced it) for the next six weeks or so. I met with the Bone Marrow Transplant team to go over everything before all the transplant prep starts....