The thing about going through something like this is all the self-discovery that it brings on.

This Monday (August 10) was supposed to be my first day of chemo treatments. However, some tests they ran this week has suggested one more procedure, so the chemo treatments have been pushed back.

A port is similar to an IV in that it’s a semi-permanent access point for the medical team to give you fluids and medicines. So instead of getting treated as a human pin cushion, they just use the port. The port is placed in the upper-chest area. This is just one of the things I’ve learned about cancer treatments in the last two or three weeks.

This is a list of all the Scripture people have sent to encourage me over the past week. I wanted to have it all in once place, so I could come back to it when I needed to be reminded.

For the last few days I’ve tried really hard not to actually think about cancer or anything related to it. I was able to talk about it in general to people, but when (let’s say) a doctor’s office calls and wants to refine some of the dates and times and I have to focus on the details, that’s when I would freak out.

Just over a week ago, I had been having some gas pains throughout the weekend and thought I had constipation. On Monday when things weren’t appearing to get better but now I had a fever, we made the decision to go to the ER.