Dream Come True

Dream Come True

August 10, 2025 It’s been just over a year since my bone marrow transplant and I just had all the tests to see how my body and the treatments are doing at fighting off the cancer cells. It’s very good news. Everything looks really good! I’m in deep remission!...
Refining

Refining

April 21, 2025 “Here, then, is a great truth. In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. In...
Dreams

Dreams

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,...
Hair and Hugs

Hair and Hugs

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...
Celebrate!

Celebrate!

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...
Planting Time

Planting Time

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....