That’s right, seven days from now I will be on the road riding my Trek 7100 bicycle from Toronto to Niagara Falls. Well, actually, from the C.N.E. grounds to Mohawk College the first day, then off to Table Rock Park in Niagara on Sunday. Nevertheless, there’s only a week to go and the excitement is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’
Unexplored Territory
Posted: March 12, 2011 in Faith, Personal, UncategorizedTags: Cancer, Community Theatre, Prayer, Spirituality
Yesterday I went down to the Juravinski Cancer Centre for the first check-up since the end of my radiation treatments. My radiation oncologist Dr. Wright and his resident poked, prodded, peered and perused every corner of my throat, inside and out. The tissues are healing nicely, slightly ahead of the average curve apparently, there’s no [...]
Today I am headed down to the Juravinski Cancer Clinic in Hamilton for the LAST of my 35 radiation treatments. In recognition of this momentous event, I present to you dear Reader a poem I have been working on for ahile now. I feel it only right to recognize the person responsible for my experience [...]
Monday was the first of 5 Review Clinic sessions I’ll have with Dr. James Wright, my radiation oncologist. Every Monday for the next 5 weeks (the last 5 weeks of my treatment cycle) I’ll meet with the good doctor and one of the nurses in the Review Clinic to take a look at how my [...]
One Down – Thirty-four to Go!
Posted: December 22, 2010 in PersonalTags: Cancer, Observation, Prayer, Volunteerism
Well, it’s started; the radiation regimen that is. Today I went down for the first in a series of 35 radiation treatments and, as advertised, it was a very simple and, at this point anyway, painless process. Well, not entirely painless. The bed they have you lie down on is pretty hard but that’s because [...]
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