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...
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 with...
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....
by Tina | Jun 16, 2024 | Thoughts
The first big trip Bill and I went on as a couple was to the Cayman Islands. It was a romantic island vacation, and we finally got the honeymoon we had skipped 15 years earlier. One of the things we did there was to take a boat with a bunch of other tourists to...
by Tina | May 13, 2024 | Thoughts
We celebrated our mothers yesterday, and I have been thinking a lot about mine lately. My mom, Wanda died on May 11, 2023. That was 1 year and 2 days ago, and people have asked me if her one-year death day and Mother’s Day this year were hard for me. Definitely not. I...
by Tina | May 10, 2024 | Updates
Here’s my long past due update: It’s going to cover multiple weeks, since I haven’t done an update since April 10. Just think of four shorter updates all rolled into one, unusually long one. In the 1980’s there was a wooden roller coaster at Lagoon in Farmington, Utah...
