Adventure Day One – Looks Can be Deceiving

May 30, 2008 –You can’t judge a book by its cover, and you can’t tell the effect of chemotherapy just after five days.  The whole idea of chemotherapy is to kill the bad cells, and in the process good cells get killed as well.  Rickey’s outer appearance was unchanged, people could not believe he was […]

Adventure Day One – Update On My Latest Adventure - Day 3 Begins

May 28, 2008 – For the next few blog entries we will be posting actual email messages Rickey and I sent over the first two weeks living in the hospital.  These emails were grounding mechanics for us, a forcing function that caused us to think about others – by sharing the simple everyday stuff, we […]

Adventure Day One –Healing Music

May 21, 2008 – Music can cause an enormous variance in emotion; a nursery rhyme can take us back, a spiritual hymn can cause us to rejoice.  Rhythm and Blues or Rock and Roll, even a Country Bluegrass tune will get us singing, swaying or crying – based on the words and our state of […]