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Memo: April’s Cancer Update (6)

A touch of hope has returned to the sails of our souls this afternoon.

As April and I accessed the waves of pain and doubt that violently rocked her soul these past few weeks, we began to fear that her voyage to health would soon break against the rocks of failure. On Saturday, August 3, 2019, an MRI revealed that the storm that enveloped her body had grown in both size and location. Seeking to…

Memo: April’s Breast Cancer Update (5)

April and I spent the last several weeks looking for the source of her debilitating back-pain. While not constant, it can come on for days at a time. Even the smallest steps cause her to writhe in pain. We gingerly dug into her cancer through discussions with her medical team and the occasional test, but we were unable to unearth any answers. Last weekend, April’s doctor aided our search by doing…

Memo: April’s Breast Cancer Update (4)

We have reached cruising altitude for April’s treatment plan. And the wheels of decision-making have retracted into the hull of the plane with a solid thump. Though she is soaring safely through the clouds of pills and test, April and I still do not know where and when this particular leg of her hormone-based-treatment flight will end.

We wish we knew the particulars and details of all that was…

Memo: April’s Breast Cancer Update (3)

Our feet have touched the cool soft dirt of hope. This past Wednesday, June 19, April began her hormone therapy.

The preparation for this first day of battle has been vastly extensive, slowly hurried, and ever changing. We have talked with clinics in Virginia, Houston, New York, and Memphis. On multiple occasions, we prepared to head north or south with fully packed suitcases. Then the phone…

Memo: April’s Breast Caner Update (2)

The storm has arrived. The small, misty drops the top the early storm-breakers have reached our souls. The monstrous, well-formed waves of April’s cancer that threaten to capsize our life have not yet come into view. But there is no doubting the arrival of this storm.

Over the last few weeks, April’s occasionally back pain has grown in intensity and has begun lasting for longer periods of times.…

Memo: April’s Breast Cancer Update

Our hearts grinded to an abrupt stop on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 2:30 PM. Like standing on an island of doom in the middle of a Walmart shopping aisle, first April and then I could only hear two words echoing over the waves of life: “metastatic cancer.”

The day before my dear wife, April, had had an MRI scan performed on her lower back. We feared a slipped disc, medical bills, and few weeks of…

Quick Thank you note and the Top Blogs of 2016!

I wish to thank all of my readers for reguarly checking in and interacting with my blogs. I greatly enjoy writing and interacting with you. The exercise helps me formulate my thoughts as I discuss what God is doing in my heart,  in the life of my family, and in my church. 2016 has been a great year online!  Thank you for being a part of my blog!

Here are the top blogs for 2016!

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