Posted by I was taking a shower last night, I had my eyes closed and in my mind I imagined myself standing under the shower in Nambe NM where we once owned a magical home. I imagined myself in Santa Fe New Mexico, Marina Del Rey California, Warsaw Poland and Long Beach California. These are all places…Read more »
Posted by I am by no means a writer, I am a reader, I love a good book and have been a fairly voracious reader for most of my adult life. The fact is that reading has sometimes gotten me into trouble, I have been known to read at red lights forgetting where I am until I…Read more »
Posted by And the results are in! Drum roll please! The bad news is that I have indeed had a relapse of the Lymphoma, I am no longer in remission, the cancer has returned. The good news is that it is a fairly non aggressive form and though it is not curable it should be treatable. I…Read more »
Posted by It has been five weeks since surgery, five weeks full of anxiety, I was told it would take two to three weeks to get the results, and then four weeks, and finally I was told it sometimes takes up to five weeks. For a cancer patients time can be both a blessing and an enemy,…Read more »
Posted by Shortly after arriving in Warsaw I visited a local doctor and was told that he is 80 to 90% convinced that my cancer has returned and I am no longer in remission. At his suggestion I headed to a private Hospital, translated to Szpital in Polish, where I proceeded to make arrangements to see a…Read more »
Posted by I am not quite sure how to start a Blog , honestly I don’t even know what a “blog” is, having said that I just looked it up and I now know what BLOG means, I assumed it was an acronym but I was wrong, it simply means web log, lose the we and throw the B next to the log and you get a Blog! Well now that I have sorted that out off I go with my web log!
Posted by Last Sunday morning my wife and I enjoyed a nice breakfast together while sitting at the bar of a local breakfast joint. A gentleman sat down next to us and after greeting us with morning salutations a conversation commenced. We chatted about the weather and other such mundane pleasantries before the conversation took a surprising…Read more »
Posted by I have been back in Los Angeles for 4 months after living a year and a half in Warsaw Poland. We had planned on staying longer in Warsaw in the hopes that I could find the treatment I so desperately needed but alas it was not meant to be. After being denied treatment at…Read more »
Posted by Last week I had to go to the hospital here in Warsaw Poland due to a severe pain in my right leg. Based on an experience from the year before when I had a blood clot in my arm following surgery for thyroid cancer I was fairly certain that once again I had a blood…Read more »
Posted by Christmas Eve 2015 I received a gift, a gift that I was not expecting, a gift that I didn’t want, a gift that changed my life forever. This was a gift that no one would ever want to be the recipient of, a gift that simultaneously filled me with dread and fear as well as…Read more »
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