This is long overdue and I apologize for the silence here.
I don’t really have an explanation other than I wasn’t sure what to do with
this blog, given the change in my circumstances that’s happened recently.
As you may have heard elsewhere, like Twitter or Facebook,
I received the dreaded scan results I’ve always sort of known would one day
come but kept on hoping wouldn’t until tomorrow or the day after. My cancer has
begun to grow exponentially and has spread throughout my abdomen and chest,
from my pelvis into my neck. It has also worked its way into my liver, which
had always been free of disease before. Cancer does that sometimes. Mine has
been very slow-growing until now. What had been a fairly well-managed, chronic
condition is now a definitively terminal one, and I’m looking at weeks to
months. With that news fresh in my mind I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with
this space, hence the break in posts.
Christina and I decided to go on a bucket-list type trip to
Europe, a continent neither of us had visited previously. Our trip last week was
a wonderful and much-needed escape, and I cannot thank everyone who helped to
fund our travels enough.
I also have some exciting developments happening in the
book-publishing department, which I will share more about when I am able. Stay
tuned!
As for cancer treatment, there’s really nothing left to
try. We were never realistically looking at curative treatments anyways, but
now it’s really down to hopefully slowing growth enough to buy a little more
time than I’d otherwise get. I’m on Votrient again, which will turn my hair
white but not much else by way of side-effects. For now I feel fairly well, so
long as I have my digestive enzyme supplements with every meal.
I think that’s about all the news since my last post. I’ll
post here some as I have reflections to share. I’ve got a couple half-finished
drafts waiting for a little more time and attention before I share them here.
That’s all I have to say!
