This hasn't been a good year.

Well, I'm home. Again.

I was in Banner Good Sam from Apr. 15 to the 28th. The preliminary diagnosis was pneumonia, but it was really the "weird respiratory thing" I've been complaining about since February. I should never have left the hospital without resolving it the last trip.

But, it wasn't pneumonia, either. It was pulmonary edema, complicated by some other things, plus another round of renal failure.

More later...

Healing comes in many forms

The standard treatment for the kind of leukemia I have is six sessions of chemo, three weeks apart. I have had two sessions, four weeks apart, and nothing in the two months since then.

And my numbers are great. My oncologist told me yesterday that there is no chemo in my future for a long time.

Some people seem to believe that if we pray for healing and are not immediately restored to full health, we are doing something wrong.

I know better.

Six weeks!!!

I knew I'd been remiss, but I didn't realize it had been six weeks, roughly, since I last posted!


I spent five weeks back in Good Sam with renal failure, Feb. 25 through April 2. I had almost no Internet access while I was there.


I may return tomorrow; my oncologist thinks I have pneumonia.