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....
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...
by Tina | Apr 23, 2024 | Thoughts
My immune deficiency doctor asked me during our visit last week how I stay cheerful with so much uncertainty nipping at my heels constantly. It wasn’t a particularly good day, and I wasn’t feeling very cheerful, but it was an honest question, and I gave him my honest...
by Tina | Apr 12, 2024 | Education, Updates
https://deepwaterdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ultrasound-of-the-heart.mp4 I had a bad week last week with lots of side effects, so didn’t get an update done (sometimes I just don’t feel like communicating, to be honest.) I had another treatment yesterday. It...
