I just reviewed once again the last few entries on Embattled Christian and want to give an update so friends and family of Jeannie Snow VanOrden can be encouraged that she is making progress. Don’t expect much creativity from my words since all the talent for writing went to Jeannie and some of her [...]
Starting on July 11 I really was in and out of delirium, five minute stretches of sleep, and painful responses to radiation. My sister’s retelling will clarify the process even to myself:
On Wednesday July 11 after a radiology treatment we were all still at the hospital. Jean attended a radialogy oncologist appt: Jean, [...]
IN THE WORDS OF MY SISTER:
July 9th, when I picked up Jean to take her to her last radiation treatment I discovered that Sunday night had not been good. Somewhere in the night Jean had started to feel much more pain and sleep had not been easy to come by. I left with instructions [...]
I will have one treatment per day for the next five days. After that I will be headed home to heal, that’s right heal. I will have to heal for eight weeks before I will be ready for a second PET Scan to determine if the tumor is gone.
Eight weeks back [...]
I woke up this morning with a distinct vision in my mind of a threadbare piece of cloth caught on a rugged wooden fence along a sun-drenched country road. My sleep-sodden brain thought: “I feel like a tattered scrap of humanity caught in a hot, painful, summer breeze.
WHEN I woke up this morning but I [...]
What do you do when after an hour’s drive you arrive at the cancer clinic only to find that the radiation machine is out of commission?
That was the bad news. But the good news was the repairman was forty-five minutes away and would not be long fixing the machine. So they asked us [...]