Category Archives: Health

Learning to Live in the Moment

It has been a while since I posted here. The reason for that is that so much has happened in my life in the last few months. Literally my life was going one direction and from one moment to the [...]

Counseling and the Question of Surgery

Previous Post in this Series: Treatment – Lots of Radiation Or Start at the beginning: Having Cancer as a Christian Around the second week after receiving chemo I started to go to one-on-one counseling at my church. The reason for [...]

When Tragedy Hits, Turn to the Next Chapter

Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit a very good friend of mine. This friend was diagnosed with cancer a month after I was. He went through treatment similar to me – chemotherapy but no radiation. The unfortunate part is [...]

Treatment – Lots of Radiation

Previous Post in this Series: Treatment – The First Week Or Start at the beginning: Having Cancer as a Christian After getting my first week of chemo in the hospital they sent me home. The first day I did pretty [...]

Treatment – The First Week

Previous Post in this Series: My First Surgery Or Start at the beginning: Having Cancer as a Christian The week after my surgery I was scheduled to be admitted to the hospital for a week to start chemotherapy and radiation. [...]

My First Surgery

Previous Post in this Series: The Treatment Plan Or Start at the beginning: Having Cancer as a Christian This is where it all got real. I was wheeled into an operating room, a place I had never been before and [...]

The Treatment Plan

Previous Post in this Series: Another Battle – No Health Insurance Or Start at the beginning: Having Cancer as a Christian So here I was. Newly diagnosed with cancer, no health insurance, and only 3 weeks into my new job. [...]

Another Battle – No Health Insurance

Previous Post in this Series: The Diagnoses – Esophageal Cancer Or Start at the beginning: Having Cancer as a Christian As if being told that you have cancer is not bad enough there was another battle brewing in the midst. [...]

The Diagnoses – Esophageal Cancer

Previous Post in this Series: Having Cancer as a Christian “The biopsy came back positive, you have cancer of the esophagus” the doctor said as I sat in the hospital bed. The words were unreal. Here is was, 34 years [...]

Having Cancer as a Christian

It is weird to sit here and think about everything that has happened in the last few months. In life you hear of other people who go through difficult times in your life but you never really know what is [...]

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