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Limbo
The hard part is over. Or so I keep telling myself…this is the eleventh week since stem cell transplant, heading towards the magic twelfth week when my immune system is expected to be restored. There have been complications: I elected to … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Myeloma
Tagged autologous, cancer, childhood diseases, Hezekiah, immune, immune system, multiple myeloma, recovery, stem cell, survival, transplant, vaccinations, vaccine
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Up a Pole
I am feeling these days a tad isolated. I have to separate myself from the world and all its infectious hazards. I have to avoid conditions where I might fall and break my glass-like skeleton. And there are lots of … Continue reading
We Walk by Faith and not by Sight
The day after my third chemotherapy session, I woke to an astonishingly disturbing sensation. I can only describe it as a burning cold, rising out of my limbs like a rotting of the bone marrow. It consumed all of my … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Myeloma
Tagged cancer, chemo, chemotherapy, Corinthians, depression, dexamethasone, faith, panic, pray, prayer, prayer warrior, presence of God, reality, Saint Paul, steroids, support network, survival, Thessalonians, Thessalonika, treatment
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Symptoms of a Miracle
Bruce Cockburn has a lyric about “Waiting for a Miracle“. It’s a revolutionary paean to the people of Nicaragua, paired with “If I had a Rocket Launcher” to express the frustration of waiting for justice under oppression. It translates nicely, … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Myeloma
Tagged Apostles, Book of Mark, cancer, Charismatic, chemotherapy, Christian, Evangelical, faith, fracture, Gospel of Mark, healing, Jesus, miracles, Nazareth, titanium
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Have You Considered My Servant Hugh?
Let me be clear: I am not as pious as Job, and I have not suffered as Job suffered. I am not sitting on a dung-heap scraping my boils with a broken pot. Our first reaction to adversity is to … Continue reading
SunDowning
In the hospital, my room-mate was a fellow with dementia. During the day he was relatively lucid. At night, and I mean as soon as the sun went down, he appeared to go back in time at least twenty years. … Continue reading
Posted in Multiple Myeloma
Tagged cancer, control, counselling, fear, loss, medication, pain, pills, sun-downing, support network, triumph
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Here’s a Bit of Bad News
I have to admit, I am scared witless. I told my doctor about this pain in my left hip. I’ve been walking with a cane for a few years because of vertigo. Since April, though, I have been depending on … Continue reading
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