Tag: Love
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Day 28/30
Written March 30, 2022 Day 28/30 I did not let sickness keep me from enjoying time with those I love and that is what I will remember about today New Thoughts March 30, 2024 This was a beautiful one to read, because here I am, two years later, knowing full well all I’ve remembered of…
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Last day of chemo
Written March 29, 2022 Six of Six Twenty-Seven of Thirty Today I am so sad, I am so angry I threw my meds across the room, I feel defeated, my thrush is back causing my pain to soar, I couldn’t eat all day yesterday, I was up at 3:00 and unable to fall back asleep…
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A great day to have a great day
Written March 16, 2022 Look who snuck out of his hospital to join me at mine! Day 18/30 Radiation, 4/6 Chemo!!! It’s a great day to have a great day as Coach Ekeler would say! (UNC Linebackers’ Coach I worked most closely with while in Grad School :)) At least he’s here in spirit
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Day 14/30
Written March 10, 2022 Day 14 Recap Was with a new Radiology team today…not only did they have Taylor Swift queued up but the exact song I had requested yesterday Pain was so well managed I felt up to a Target run & Starbucks New hats & handkerchiefs to avoid any sun exposure on my…
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Mental Time Travel
Written March 10, 2022 Day 14 I woke up pain free this morning With the clarity that provides, I wanted to share a trick I learned from Mood Lifters for the tough times When I’m in a bad spot, when all I can do is breath, I find myself imagining standing at our wedding listening…
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Amsterdam 🌍
February 25, 2023 – March 5, 2023 ~ Uitwaaien ~ [out-vahyn] (Dutch) (v.) to take a break to clear one’s head; “to walk in the wind” successful red eye across the pond last night // head is already much clearer February 26, 2023 Geld moet rollen Written March 3, 2023 “Denk aan al het mooie…
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Love and Despair
Written February 3, 2022 Day 9 An excerpt from Matt Haig’s “The Comfort Book” on Love/despair “Albert Camus said, ‘There is no love of life without despair of life.’ When I first came across that quote I thought it was empty and pretentious and more than a little bleak. But as I grew older the…
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A reason to smile
Written February 27, 2022 My sweet sweet nurse friend told me she has a face case patient just like me & the patient was so sad and discouraged with how she is & looks, so my friend told her about me & showed her how I look even a few weeks post op & the…
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Here’s hoping
Written February 25, 2022 Day 5 High 5 might be the best one yet Not going to lie & say it’s been an easy week… The Comfort Book by Matt Haig reminds me “Hope isn’t the same thing as happiness. You don’t need to be happy to be hopeful. You need instead to accept the…
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Mother Teresa
Written February 1, 2022 “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song,…
a small hope 