Getting sick isn’t fun, but having every conversation and interaction in your life be about being sick can make it worse by narrowing your world and making your life about being sick.  It might seem strange, but I feel pretty lucky:

• I have a great family
• I have wonderful friends
• I ended up with one of the most curable cancers around
• I don’t have to worry about other stresses: job, money, complicated relationships, etc.

So, why do a blog?  So that I can keep all my friends and family informed about the “factoids” and, hopefully, make it easier for us to [at least try to] talk about other things and not have every word of every conversation taken up with stuff that ends up being pretty boring and confusing to most people.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to make this a substitute for human interaction.  If you are so inclined, I definitely want you to call and support me an my family through the coming tough months.  I want to stay close – and cancer can be isolating and stigmatic.  You might be interested in how things are going, but it can be awkward to call…you feel like you’re imposing, you don’t know if I’m up to talking, you might not even like hearing about the gory details.  So, here are the facts and the trivia – now you can be as informed as you want any time and make your call or visit something to distract me from the chemo!