Some days, while recuperating from chemotherapy, radiation therapy and lately, from surgery, I have wondered if I will ever be able to take a day for granted again. The process seems so long and pain persists. Nothing feels normal. Going out is hard work. I did manage to take Bronwen to a favourite cafe recently, [...]
In June 2008 I travelled to Malaysia and Sri Lanka. It was quite a tiring trip and I thought it was a spiritual assault I was battling. Only after the colonoscopy and scans in October did I realise that the tiredness was caused by my body trying to cope with the advancing cancer in my [...]
There are many frustrations when one walks into a dark valley and sometimes they get on top of a person. It is not only hard for the ‘patient’ who is not being patient. It is also very hard on the carer who sometimes finds they need caring themselves. There are moments when there are clashes [...]
Thoughts penned by Belinda Emmett after she found out she was dying from cancer: I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for a day… I would have burned the pink candle sculpted into a rose before [...]
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 [...]
Life is not all doom and gloom. Just so you don’t think I’m sitting around staring at my navel all the time, I thought I’d post another poem I wrote shortly after penning “Light in my long night“. Life’s clichés If a faith-lift’s what you need And you’re down at the mouth The heat is [...]
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