Category: The Doctor’s Office
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The Pulled Rug
It has happened again. The rug. Pulled out from under our feet and we are upended. Reeling. Sad. Clinging. I saw the doctor to finally get answers about the kidney stone, aptly named Stanley by a friend of ours. The good news, Stanley is gone. No. more. stone! However… they see more on the ultrasound…
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And Still We Wait
I’ve waited to write about this, because sometimes I want to ask, “Really? Do y’all really want to know what’s going on with a silly old kidney stone?” I also wait to write, because I need time to process with my closest friends before I put my “news” out there in the blogosphere. I sat…
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New Chemo… And Other Things
As I sit here, surrounded by utter exhaustion, it occurs to me that bullet points would make this a much easier post to write, but I’m not even sure what or how I would bullet point, so prepare yourselves for yet another tedious and disorganized update. I realized on Sunday when several people asked me…
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A Resounding Yes
This past year and a half has been a drain on our family… on Brian’s and my marriage, on the children, on my parents. It is exhausting to be constantly fighting for survival–survival of us, of our hearts. Sometimes it seems survival of our very faith, even though I know that He Who began a…
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Twists and Turns
“The world is indeed full of peril…” The last week has been a roller coaster with as many twists and turns as it has had ups and downs. I have reeled afresh with the struggle that cancer brings, the unknowns, the changes to what had become normalcy, the physical suffering. I have had several phone…
A Spring of Joy 