Category: The Doctor’s Office
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Where We Are
This blog has been quiet these past few weeks, not because I haven’t wanted to write nor because I didn’t have time to write. I have been quiet mostly because so much happened, so much beauty and joy and love being with my children and extended family over the holidays, and I have held it…
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Warm Nodes and Waiting Mode
Here’s a more detailed update for those of you interested… There are definitely some “warm nodes” on my chest; however, they are not enlarged and are small. They cannot tell from the PET whether they’re cancer or not. Because they are small, a biopsy wouldn’t be able to tell either. So… the best thing to…
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The Gift of the Tedious
So here we are… or rather, here I sit, in the dark of the night trying to figure out just how to explain where I am without it being boring or tedious. But how can I write something other than what is? Because this all seems so boring and tedious to me. Because waiting seems…
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Good Things
What follows is a long and possibly tedious update for those of you wondering where we are and what’s happening… I had blood work yesterday to make sure my clotting factors were all fine for the biopsy, but feeling unsettled and confused about some communications, I called my endocrinologist with some questions and too see…
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Beautiful Reminders
I’ve written about them before… these patches of Godlight as C.S. Lewis calls them. Those moments when in the woods of our experience, we see God’s hand. These days, it seems the woods of my experience look a bit like this: It’s easy to get bogged down in the brambles and thorns and briars and…
A Spring of Joy 