Archive for the ‘illness’ Category

Pierce Update #12 (and mail update)

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Hello! Most of you know that since my last update in July, Mom was able to get out of the hospital and continue her treatment as an outpatient. Over that time things have largely been well and progressing positively. While out she has gotten two rounds of lighter chemotherapy with the goal of reducing her […]

Sounds Like Life to Me

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Darrell Worley sings a song called “Sounds Like Life to Me”.  He gives several instances including a call from his friend’s wife who says her husband – Johnny –  “got off the wagon”. She asks if Darrell could help find him since he had been gone for two hours.  He was, as she suspected, at […]

Living a Day at a Time

Monday, August 17th, 2009

I’m not sure I told you, but being here in Texas, away from family, and having a newly diagnosed disease has been pretty overwhelming.   Not in  a bad way, mind you, but jut different.  Texas is BIG and though I have not seen much of it thus far, Houston in itself is huge.   […]

5 Days

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Five days in anyone’s week is normal.  We work, we go to school, we enjoy everyday life. Today I begin five days of my second round of chemo.  It is going to be different.  My first injection starts at 6:30 tonight.  I go to the hospital for an hour to get the chemo as an […]

Stepping Out of the Bubble

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

There’s a new reality show – as if we needed one more – that has families traveling across the country in mobile homes.  In one of the segments a family member got inside a “bubble” and had to be rolled through a series of obstacles at a fast pace. There are reality shows, and there […]