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a year ago
I woke up today thinking about where we were and what we were doing a year ago today. So I opened up the calendar on my laptop and saw where right about this time last year we were about to board a flight to take us to Seattle, to board a ship that would take us to Alaska.
a post surgery post
As I sit here next to Joey’s hospital bed, there are bouquets of flowers lining the nurses desk outside her room door (they can’t bring them into her room, until she’s out of ICU and in a regular room) and behind me get-well cards line her window sill. Joey is resting soundly and all I can hear is her breath and the sounds of the machines monitoring her heart rate and oxygen and administering IV’s and pain medicine into her veins. It’s a an eerie, beautiful quiet after the storm.
this is the day
We woke up this morning in our hotel room to the sound of Indiana rustling in her playpen at the foot of our bed. She was cooing and talking to her hands as the 5:30 am light was streaming in through the curtains. I turned over to Joey and put my hand on hers. She was already awake – covered in sweat, head to toe.
stage 4 love
Stage 4 cervical cancer. The doctors say there is a 9 cm tumor in Joey’s sigmoid colon…
a prayer for cancer
There are few words scarier than the word “cancer”. In our culture these days, we usually think that’s as bad as it can get. But when you hear a doctor say the words “the cancer’s come back”... it’s a whole new level of scary.
making a movie
In the past few months, I haven’t been able to post on my blog as often as I’d like to. This is why…
a year of firsts
I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s happened in our world since I started this blog. How much my life has changed and how I had no idea what was in store for us when I made my first post in January 2014.
hawaii five-O
According to my birth certificate and our bathroom mirror, I’m about to turn 50 years old…