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...
by Tina | Aug 4, 2024 | Thoughts
I’ve been in the hospital for three days now, and probably have at least two more to go. They will let me go home when my blood tests show that my white blood cells are multiplying fast enough. I am here because the colitis that developed as a result of chemotherapy...
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...
