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Fight For Your Life V – Live Anyway
When life tries to knock you down, you have a choice: stop at survival or live anyway. This isn’t about waiting for a breakthrough moment — it’s about small acts of defiance that add up to purpose.
Fight For Your Life IV — If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going
We all face our own versions of hell — disease, loss, seasons that strip us bare. You can’t live there. You claw forward, inch by inch if you have to. This is my story of refusing to quit, and the poem that’s helped me keep moving when the fire got close.
Time For an Update and Time to Move Forward
Being Positive – Part 2
Being Positive – Part 1
Our Fight Against Cancer So Far
The Top Ten Benefits To Having Urostomy Surgery
One Year Down – A Lifetime To Go
Life After Surgery: The Ostomy Adventures
What Is Winning?
Just Another Adjustment
We Got To Ring The Bell
Being Positive – Part 1
Most of the writing I publish in my Blog has a process. I work on something, edit it, put it down for a few hours, pick it back up, tweak it a little, find an image that fits with it, copy and paste from Word to the Website, give it one last review and hit publish. ...
Our Fight Against Cancer So Far
I have a confession to make. I knew almost nothing about cancer prior to my diagnosis. My knowledge was limited to a lot of people die from it, but quite a few don’t. Either way, it wasn’t something you wanted to deal with. I can confidently say that...
The Top Ten Benefits To Having Urostomy Surgery
When I think back to what was going through my mind when I realized I was going to lose my bladder, there was a lot of fear and anxiety with the unknowns involved. No one told me all of the awesome benefits that would come with it.
One Year Down – A Lifetime To Go
Saturday February 10th represents the one-year anniversary of receiving the diagnosis. The one where the doctor told us that he couldn’t promise I’d be here in a year. Just like my 11th grade wrestling season, I have done everything that I was supposed to do and more resulting in reaching a place that few doctors thought I would be: Still here.
Life After Surgery: The Ostomy Adventures
While I was working at an event in a small Texas town over the weekend, I felt a tap on my shoulder. When I turned, I saw our oncologist smiling at me. We were about 50 miles away from the clinic where we normally see her. After asking me what I was doing out there...
What Is Winning?
In 1986, author James P. Carse published a book titled "Finite and Infinite Games” where a finite game is defined as a contest with known players, fixed rules and an agreed upon objective. There is a clearly defined endpoint and there are winners and...
Just Another Adjustment
Navigating life is nothing more than making constant adjustments to an ever-changing landscape. Like most people, I’ve dealt with my fair share of change. In 3rd grade, my family moved across town, and I had to switch elementary schools in the middle of...
We Got To Ring The Bell
In the chemotherapy room at Texas Oncology in the Willowbrook area of Houston, TX, there is a bell with a sign that says, “Hip Hip Horray! Today is my LAST Chemo Day!” It’s simple. When you finish your chemotherapy regimen, you get to ring it. It...
Confronting Reality and Remaining Resilient
The fourth chapter in Jim Collins’s best selling business book, Good to Great, is titled “Confront the Brutal Facts (Yet Never Lose Faith)”. The book is a case study where similar companies are compared at the points where one took off to become great (based on...
An Amazing Day
The word “overwhelmed” does not do justice to how we really felt after this past Sunday. The people, along with the outpouring of love and support was unreal to us. For an event that we never wanted to happen, it was truly amazing. The amount of gratitude...