For a little while you forget. You get caught in all the day to day minutiae of life. Important meetings, focus on work, just regular life. But, then you remember… You have Cancer. You wait for the call, next steps, appointments. The things you need to do to get better. “Make it Go Away!” you…
Category: Cancer
Day 4 – 07/22/2013
Monday, back to work. Which consists of getting up, getting on an airplane and going into the office. To tell the boss, or not to tell the boss. I have never been one who could not lay it out and face it. Whatever IT is. I went into the office still undecided but after talking…
Day 3 – 07/21/2013
I believe that denial is starting to set in. My mind has now decided to tell me the story of how this is ‘just the beginning stages’ and that ‘I am making it out to be more than it really is.’ I fluctuate between this being something overblown in my mind and then reading horror…
Day 2 – 07/20/2013
Yesterday was a day of tears and some static noise and more tears. I look back and know I had 3 meetings but the day stretched out till a year and seemed to go on and on. I told Jim and Suse about the diagnosis, but that I didn’t know any more. They didn’t know…
Day 1 – 07/19/2013
When you get the call that you hope you will never receive in this lifetime, “you have cancer.” What follows that is a lot of static in your head. “Did I really hear what I thought I heard?” This was not the way the conversation was scripted. Maybe I should start even further at the…