by Tina | Mar 30, 2025 | Thoughts
March 28, 2025 At the cancer treatment center, there is a big bell hanging on the wall, and when a patient has reached remission, they ring the bell and everyone claps and cheers for them. The day came when they declared me in “functional remission”, but the bell...
by Tina | Feb 9, 2025 | Updates
https://deepwaterdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/A-Dream.mp4 Most of my dreams are nonsense. As “the Giver” says, they are usually “a combination of reality, fantasy, emotions and what you had for dinner”. But I had a different kind of dream a few days ago that,...
by Tina | Nov 4, 2024 | Updates
My hair is beginning to grow in again. I look like a really hairy peach right now, and I think I look even weirder than I did when I was completely bald. But I had a tender mercy a few days ago that has helped me see my head from a different perspective. I was at my...
by Tina | Oct 22, 2024 | Thoughts
https://deepwaterdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ariel-Sukkot-Message-2024-10.mp4 I had a wonderful time with my family the past few weeks. I was blessed with a visit from two daughters who live way too far away, added to my four sons and their families who live...
by Tina | Oct 6, 2024 | Thoughts
It is the nature of progress to make yourself do things you may not want to do. My mom taught me (and enforced it) that I had to do my chores before I could play. As a home maker for 40 years, I have used this principle to get the work done; do the work that I like...
by Tina | Sep 8, 2024 | Thoughts
You don’t think yourself into a new way of doing; you do yourself into a new way of thinking. Gratitude is one of the proofs of this principle. For many years, I have known what to do when I need to pull myself out of a pity party. It is to focus my mind, prayers,...
by Tina | Aug 17, 2024 | Thoughts
I’ve been sitting on this couch update for a while, waiting for something new to happen, but there’s only two things to report. One is, I did get out of the hospital on Monday. They kept me in nearly three days because that’s their minimum with a transplant stay. I...
by Tina | Aug 11, 2024 | Thoughts
Bad News!! I have been back in the hospital since Friday. It seems to be “neutropenic fever” this time (it just is part of having no immune system after a transplant). The rule is that if I ever get a fever of 100.4 or greater, they put me in the hospital for at least...
by Tina | Aug 7, 2024 | Thoughts
Great news!!! I am home from the hospital and went to the clinic today. And I am what they call Engrafted, which means that my white blood cells are multiplying within normal limits. I still have almost all the restrictions that I’ve had since chemotherapy. But I have...
