When I set out on this Contemplating Chemotherapy series, initially I thought it would be primarily blogging about my experience with chemo exclusively during this season. As I’ve been writing and looking back, I’ve realized that life is never simple enough to let you…
I’m glad that 2016 is over. I don’t typically say that, but it is true. Bring on 2017, I’m ready. As long as it’s nothing like 2016, it will be fine with me. Or will it? Chemo Christmas Let me tell you about what…
I have been wanting to write a post along these lines for some time now, but I figured now would be a good time to post in light of the holidays. Christmas is often a time to visit and spend time with family, and…
So (as if you didn’t already know or hear): chemo sucks. I would have said that before starting chemo because I’d heard all of the horror stories (and, you know, it was basically mustard gas at its inception). But after my first two rounds…
Let’s all just be honest: we suck at waiting. Even worse than being bad at it, most of us (if we’re honest) hate waiting. It’s ironic that our inability to wait shows itself perhaps most surprisingly during the season that has traditionally been set aside…
Yes, that’s a question mark in the title – as in, I’m wondering if I should be thankful for chemo, not saying I necessarily should be thankful. “But Jason,” you might be thinking, “I thought we should be thankful for everything? Isn’t that in…
Here is a guest post by none other than my amazing little sister, Michaela (pictured with me – just for the record, she picked this photo). She is the one who asked me to write this post from a few weeks ago (Contemplating Chemotherapy:…
This past weekend I had the opportunity to share about my own personal “dark night of the soul” with my church, both as I taught Sunday School and in a 10-minute interview as part of panel during the main service (which you can watch…
For those of you who have not heard, I started my third round of chemo this week. With that comes some good news and some bad news from these past few weeks. The good news: my CT shows that my tumor has not grown…
On Wednesday I will be heading to MD Anderson in Houston to have my first CT scan since I started chemo. On Thursday I’ll find out the results as I meet with my oncologist. The hope is that we’ll see that my tumor has…
