Saturday was the 6th annual St. Jude Give Thanks Walk. Our Team Kaelyn didn’t participate in the first walk. At that time, my little niece was sick, but the doctors hadn’t diagnosed her cancer as yet. That didn’t happen until December after the first walk in November. We had yet to find out in a very personal family way the …
1 in 8 – The C Word
Turns out I’m the 1 in 8. A couple of weeks ago I heard the “c” word no one wants to hear. This week I’ll have surgery to remove a cancerous lump from my breast. The lump is very small and the possibility of a complete cure is very good. But I’m still 1 in 8. My mother had breast …
A New Chapter in Life
No one finishes this race, but everyone gets to pass a baton, and a good hand off means that you will not slow anyone down during the hand off, especially any one of the billions who will live after you. Everyone today is an accumulation of the 106 billion batons that have been passed forward for thousands of years. So make your …
Team Kaelyn
Some of you who follow my posts on Facebook and have been following this blog for a while know I have a great niece named Kaelyn who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia the week before Christmas last year. She’s undergoing treatment at St. Jude’s and has 91 more weeks of chemo. She’s a beautiful little girl and when she …
The Next Thirty Years
~~Today is my great niece, Kaelyn’s birthday. She’s six. Some of you may have been following her or my reports on her on Facebook. But in case you haven’t, here’s a bit of her story. Last year before Christmas she got sick several times and couldn’t seem to get completely better. They thought it was the flu and/or other common …