Brain Cancer is...

...a major life shift.

 

Wait!  Before you click away, thinking you'd read Captain Obvious's blog if you wanted old news, hear us out.  Yes, everything changed with the sudden crashing shock of Darrell's diagnosis.  But today we learned that the "life is forever changed" lesson is one that we'll need to keep learning.

 

Darrell said these words ("Brain cancer is a major life shift") as we were climbing into the car for our second trip of the day to the cancer center. That's the new normal for us, for now.  We reflected again how our fight against brain cancer is now the center point of lives.  Everything else (everything!) just needs to fit into the tiny spaces around the edges.

 

The saying, "Life is about the journey, not the destination" is so true that it's trite.  We've been trying to shift our philosophy away from outcomes, deadlines, and success markers for many years.  Now we're realizing it's journey with a small j--the journey is in the day-to-day experiences.  Life's about the journey of March 3, 2016.

 

Daily Updates

• Darrell completed Day 4 of radiation. He's tolerating it well.
• The mask's mouth breathing hole wasn't as awesome as he had hoped, but it's something.
• We saw Dr. Park, the oncologist. No news from the Mayo clinic on tumor markers yet. It's not urgent because all clinical trials are after the "treatment" phase of chemo and radiation and fall in the "maintenance" phase of just chemo.
• Darrell walked a full hour in the pic above.