A CANCER UPDATE

With more wit and whimsy than pathology and prognosis

This is a sample entry of my daily journal on my Cancer Journey. I've just been through another biopsy process to checkout a hot spot found on my tongue. The pathology isn't back yet. I'm hoping it's just a remnant of radiation. We shall see.

BUT NOW FOR SOMETHING LIGHTER.

I was last Saturday when I wrote this. It was:

Day 631 of treatment

Day 616 of recovery

Day 231 as a survivor

I love waking up rested with the sun shining through my bedroom window and a refreshing breeze bringing bird songs to my grateful ears.

My mind is also rested. No vivid dreams to recall to disturb my morning moments of relaxed reverie.

My to-do list will appear soon enough, but for now, at this present pleasant instance, I am struck by a simple sense of just being. It's a human kind of being, and I wonder if it's species-specific.

I'm smiling as I reflect on my experience and experiments with learning to talk.

So far, using the stoma prosthesis versions, I've discovered I can't say the letter "w." I can't seem to trick my truncated tongue to get around that sound.

I found myself smiling because so many delightful words start with a "W."

Think of WAKING up to the WORLD and all its WONDERS. Think about all the good WORKS being done and yet to be done.

Think of all the games you've played WILY and WON with the teams you were part of.

I thought about my journey to gaining the strength to WALK on my own again after surgery or having the WILLPOWER to conquer stairs.

Think of the word WHAT in terms of your striving anticipations and how you are acting to reach those aspirations? Have you established a WHEN for yourself for your goals?

Don't leave off WISTFUL, WINSOME and WHIMSY as you let your mind WANDER along WITH your imagination.

Think of WHICH and all the alternatives and options available to us and how WE can make choices that help us to become WHOLE.

Then there are those WHO are suffering WAR and WANTING and doing WITHOUT.

WHY are WE too often WITHHOLDING in our hearts to let them WHITHER, WANE and WASTE away?

The words starting with the letter W are a double-edged sword. They are part of our thought scapes and our action scapes.

WHILE I cannot accurately pronounce these *double-yous," I can still apply them and use them in how I live my life.

WAKING up this morning has made me realize there is a WORLDWIDE WEB that is much more than the Internet.

The Haiku of the day.

CHANGES

Everyone will change

By the decisions we make

Or by destiny.