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Year One of “Thank God for Pneumonia, I Have Cancer”

(This was written in early September 2020, but I held off posting it as others were furiously battling. Their fights are over and they are now perfectly healed.)  With these words on August 25th, 2019, we announced publicly what I had been sharing privately since the 22nd (I knew the 20th) that I was in […]

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Still bald.. but I have eyebrows again

The same view, 8 months later. The last time Rodney was able to make this walk was October 8. This evening he made it again. God is so good!  (It took Andrea and a walking stick to make it up the hill, but we made it!) (Yes, I am drinking Plexus and rubbing my eyebrows […]

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Thankful, Breakfast Burger, and Ray Gun Doctor

Yesterday, my phone rang, and Pastor Chris Truett and his church staff encouraged and prayed for my family and me. A few moments later, my “youth pastor” Fred Caraway called to schedule a visit for next week, even though it is a 6-hour drive. My bride faced the panic-stricken hordes at the supermarket to liberate […]

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Things I Love About My Husband’s Cancer Diagnosis – Day 41

Things I Love About My Husband’s Cancer Diagnosis Before you question my sanity, please let me explain. I cried while I was making eggs the other day. Not because the eggs were bad or the milk was soured. I cried because a thought came to my mind like an arrow. As serious as Rodney’s cancer […]

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Please Stop Knocking Me Out

I Don’t Like Being High. So, two weeks ago, I was knocked out several times. That Thursday and Friday, they loaded me down with fentanyl. Some days before that it was some type of general “loopy” drug that they never told me the name. And, I discovered after 48 years of never needing to know […]