As we learn to live with the cancer, we’re more able to predict Emmett’s good and bad days.  Chemo comes and goes, apparently with varying degrees of difficulty, and he gets about a week of almost normal life.  He’s still working on regaining strength, and it’s hard to tell overall if he’s just recovering from [...]

If I were a chicken, I think i’d be sitting on an egg right now.  I’m not sure what that means exactly, but the mental picture reflects my mood right now. Apparently there’s a storm brewing in Nashville.  Spring storms are the best, but right now there are only threatening weather forecasts and a slight [...]

So we had chemo, round 3 today… Today’s chemo appointment was the first appointment we made that didn’t have to be rescheduled because of blood counts or ER visits.  He’s actually made it two weeks out of the hospital with no ER visits, and that is a huge blessing for us.  It was also a [...]

Tomorrow is round three of chemo for Emmett. Don’t forget to wear your Team Emmett gear. We’ve seen some great pictures of you in your Emmett gear, so keep the good pictures coming!

We keep our lives busy because if we stop moving we might realize we’re standing on air. – loose translation of Friedrich Schopenhauer based on what I can remember of my college German. It sounds much cooler in the original German, though. I realized that healing begins with our taking our pain out of its [...]