Zac Smith is a young man dealing with cancer. It is worth the four and a half minutes to watch to the end.
Thank you to my friend Martin who sent me this link.
Posted in Helpful things, tagged cancer on March 24, 2010| 1 Comment »
Zac Smith is a young man dealing with cancer. It is worth the four and a half minutes to watch to the end.
Thank you to my friend Martin who sent me this link.
Posted in News, Prayer Requests, Scripture, tagged cancer on October 12, 2009| 6 Comments »
Five years ago today, Dianne went to see a surgical oncologist who confirmed that she has breast cancer. By the end of that week it would be diagnosed as Stage IV cancer, having spread from her breast through her lymph nodes to her bones in her back and ribs.
Stage IV cancer is a strange thing. As her doctors have said on more than one occasion, “you will die with it; our goal is that you don’t die of it.” And, praise God, she is able to serve in the roles she loves best today, as mother and wife and member of the church.
To this day, Dianne, good mother that she is, counts the 17 days that Johnny was in the NICU as the hardest days of her life. My hardest days were those following that cancer diagnosis, through chemotherapy, surgery and then radiation.
Hardest days, but not the worst days. (more…)