Back to the transplant… It takes three months to go through it and another three months to recuperate from it. It’s really rather grueling. They overdose you with chemo, collect your stem cells and freeze them. Then they chemo you up some more and eventually put the cells back in your bloodstream, hoping they’ll start …
My Darth Vader mask… (part one)
It is not true that God wants to teach us something in our trials: through every cloud he brings, he wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in the cold is to simplify our belief until our relationship to him is exactly that of a child. Oswald Chambers About midnight Paul and Silas were praying …
Fall risk…
I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing. Hillel I was pushed back and about to fall but the Lord helped me. Psalm 118:13 “To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy.” Jude 24 Every …
Hell and hilarity in the hospital (part two)
[Here's another piece from the memoir I'm preparing to publish soonish... Hope you'll read the whole thing when it's ready.] Another time, during the transplant I got pretty sick and was sentenced to a week in an isolation room in the hospital. It wasn’t that I’d been bad, and had to be separated from the …
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Hell and hilarity in the hospital (part one)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22 I have a newfound respect for anyone who works with the sick and infirmed. I can think of about three hundred careers that I would choose before going into the medical field. First of all, sick people are no …
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