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 |   My journey through (and beyond) the valley with Cancer as my companion. |
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Dear Friend: This is not a Blog about writing! (I already have one of those.) This is a blog about a journey I am taking with illness. I have recently been diagnosed with Cancer. My goal is honest therapy as I progress through, and beyond this new reality in my life. I hope that, somewhere along the way you will find some words that will help you too. While this is, in fact, an interactive Blog, I hope that you will scroll slowly down this page. For you see, the front of this Blog IS my journey. The entries are conversations that are held along the journey.Yes, there is a lot on it--before actually getting to the Blog entries. But, I hope that by the objects and words which appear before the Blog itself, you might come to understand just a little bit about me, and my journey, and some truly amazing friends who have agreed to journey with me. I hope that you, too, will choose to accompany me on my walk--through the Valley. I invite you to join me, and discover the wondrous truths, meet some truly amazing people, and share those "memorable" moments this journey will undoubtedly present. Come along, won't you? In His Care, ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Would you like to help me help others? I found this amazing organization, and I am proud to be a sponsor. I hope you will check it out. It's called The Network For Good.  ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "RISUS OMNIA - INCRUMENTUS PER DEDECUS - SAPIENTIA PER DAMNUM" ("Every thing is funny - Growth through humiliation - Wisdom through loss") ~Leunig~ The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~Helen Keller~ "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." ~Virginia Woolf~ ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "There is strength in truth." ~The Barton Family Crest~ ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller, American social activist, public speaker and author (1880-1968) I have moved the list of my thanks for those who have helped to make this little Blog so very special. I hope that you will take a moment to read the list, growing every day, and let these fellow travellers along this journey know that you appreciate the contributions they make to our walk together.
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Please feel free to click on the Blog Rings icon below to be transported to some of the very best of the Best Bloggers around WDC. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** If you are new to WDC, or to our Blogging community, I highly recommend the monthly edition of "The Blogville News". Feel free to click below, and let Scarlett   know that a Blogger sent ya!Hey! We've started a Christian's Blog Ring on WDC. Click on the logo, and join us! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Budroe
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| With apologies to all who follow and share this blog, I know it has been a while. Finances did not allow me to keep my Premium Account. A kindness shown by a friend allowed me to have an updated account for a time (a long time!), but of course that restricted my work here from my usual production. This blog has been a lifeline for me during this journey, and for those called to this journey themselves (and for others). Looking over the entries over the years, it is with humble gratitude I return to continue this journey. Yes, this journey continues. I will be having a series of surgeries in the coming months that will attempt to rid my body of things that should not be there. There is a bit of risk involved, but if you have been sharing this journey with me, you will know that risk is a companion. I am rather nervous about it, for many reasons. One is the unshakable fear that I will not survive these coming steps. While the surgeries themselves are considered somewhat "usual", they do involve some potentially serious side effects. Facial/vocal cord paralysis being two of them. We won't talk about blood clots, or Subclavian Steal Syndrome, or Diabetes issues for now, but they are there. I do not say this for sympathy, or to unnecessarily belabor the point. These are points of information to share because I have remained honest during this journey, and I will remain so now. I can now report that there is an answer that I have been seeking since October, 2006. Dudette promised not to stop until she could definitively tell me WHY this happened. A lot of work has been done to seek this answer. I know now. I'll post about it soon. It's genetic. For those sharing this journey, there are a lot of interesting steps which have been involved. Those steps continue. When I have a date for the first surgery, which will remove a very, very large and diseased Thyroid, I'll update with specifics. I hope you will follow and participate as this journey through the valley continues. Soli Deo Gloria! Bud |
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