Category: hope
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Days +0 to +4
Day +0: A cup of hope – April 10, 2020 Thank you for all the ways you’ve been #RootingforRamon! The transplant went off without a hitch, and we’ve already walked a few laps, watched an awful movie, and napped. We’ll be sipping from our cup of hope as YuSun’s cells boss Ramón around (as all…
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Wear your seatbelt
One of these guys enjoys licking plates in the dishwasher, and the other one has a bone marrow biopsy tomorrow. When we last saw one of Ramón’s hematologists, I asked him if there was anything Ramón could or should do to potentially improve the outcome of the next biopsy. His answer was basically no, then…
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tiny kindnesses
Ramón and I watched a movie, Paterson, the other night, and the main character was a poet. It got me thinking about how much I used to love writing poetry when I was younger. That being said, I’m about to attempt to write a little who-knows-what-form-this-will-take poem. tiny kindnessesa smile, a wave, a hi met…
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Some mumbo for your jumbo
First, I want to proactively acknowledge that this post might be a little bit out there, but guess who doesn’t care? Me! I read something transformative this weekend, and I’m still excited, so I want to write about it. I recently mentioned my introduction to Eckhart Tolle, and I’m about halfway through his book, The…
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Live oak
I recently borrowed a memoir from the local library. It caught my eye instantly because it was called Marrow, a word that entered our vocabulary uninvited in May—without even a gentle knock. The book’s author, Elizabeth Lesser, is a perfect match for her sister who needs a bone marrow transplant. The sisters want to have…
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It’s just a game. But I still hurt.
October 10. 10/10. That sounds like a date filled with promise, doesn’t it? It’s clean and round and associated with a perfect score. But, as a Braves fan, I have bad memories of October 10, and those are extra poignant today. The year was 2010. I was supposed to be getting outpatient sinus surgery (my…