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Eight Octillion

Eight Octillion…..that’s the number of grains of sands scientist estimate make up the Sahara desert.  How about the sands on the beaches of the world?  7,500,000,000,000,000,000.  How do you even say that?? Aren’t you so glad to have that little bit of information?  You wonder why in the world would I even know that?  Well, […]

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The Blessing of Cancer

Is that possible…..to find any good in cancer?  Yes! Hearing that diagnosis and then the subsequent treatment was no cake walk, but there is definitely a sliver lining in this cloud. On a lighter side, when else could I sport a mohawk?   ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………….     I enjoyed sending this photo to my punk -rocker- […]

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In the Dark Cloud of Cancer there is a Light………

  And the Lord was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.  He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the […]

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That awful, wonderful, agonizing, amazing cloud time…..

                                                                          From the first day I heard the Doctor say ‘cancer’ it was like this big dark cloud descended […]

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Fear vs. Faith

I hobbled into the Doctor’s office. I could barely walk from the pain in my legs. Four days ago on a trip to St. Augustine, Florida, I landed in the emergency room thinking I had an appendicitis. I was told I had a large mass on my ovary and I needed to see an oncologist […]

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Storm Clouds Rolling In

Two years ago this week, I was hooked up to an I.V. to administer the first round of a chemotherapy cocktail. I will never forget the first drip drip drip….. I can still see it clear as day in my mind. As the drugs began to fill my veins, my eyes began to fill with tears. […]

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