The Hurunui News article has produced some amazing responses. Of course we’ve only heard the positive ones. Several people who I would have imagined were ‘hardened’ to Christianity and faith have commented favourably and asked me how I became a Christian in the first place. Others with different ailments, including heart problems have said that [...]
I was gardening on Monday after having had the first dose of chemo from Friday to Sunday. The reactions did not appear to be too severe with only slight feelings of nausea and the annoying electric shocks in the fingers if I touch something cold. So I decided to spend a couple of hours weeding [...]
I got some positive news about the radioactive spheres trial yesterday. I go up to Auckland next Sunday afternoon for the angiograms on the Monday, then fly home on Tuesday. Back into Christchurch on the Thursday for blood tests and chemo on Friday/Sat and Sun, then if the Auckland tests are OK, fly back there the following [...]
A friend, Ross Ferguson, sent me this poem that reminds us that Cancer is not omnipotent – it cannot destroy the really important things Cancer is so limited… It cannot cripple Love, It cannot shatter Hope, It cannot corrode Faith, It cannot eat away Peace, It cannot destroy Confidence, It cannot kill Friendship, It cannot [...]
I have just learned that I have been ‘randomly selected’ for a cancer treatment trial based in Auckland. The trial is for colorectal cancer patients who also have secondaries in the liver. It places radioactive spheres in the liver in the hope that they will specifically target the metasteses there. When the Auckland radiologist returns [...]
It was my turn to submit a Pastoral reflection for the North Canterbury newspaper in November. I sent an abbreviated comment about where faith plays a part in bad news. The paper asked me to expand on it and resubmit it as a feature article. It appeared in last weekend’s Hurunui News. My poem Light [...]
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