Something I didn’t really miss when I stopped going to church is the special churchy language we use there. I don’t mind so much the words we use for special activities and goings-on at church such as ‘connect’, as in ‘connect group’, which basically means socialising, which thankfully now replaces the very, very churchy word [...]
A few days after my diagnosis with stage 3B Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, as I lay in a hospital bed absolutely determined to survive, a man in the bed opposite me decided to do the exact opposite. It happened one morning right before breakfast. The nurses came to bring Jack his morning medication, and he sweetly but [...]
It never goes away. Nobody tells you the fear of cancer coming back never goes away. And you might not believe it even if they did. When you finish treatment you think finally, it’s all over. But then the time comes for the blood test, the scan, the biopsy, the xray, the follow up appointment. Suddenly [...]
