A New Year!
It was December 14, 2012 that I took my first step on this unexpected cancer journey. Sheesh...what a year it's been. As I look back over the past 12 months, I'm surprised how I feel about them. It's not all doom and gloom. Although the peaks and valleys of this year's highs and lows have been extreme, the net amplitude has been much like other years. No doubt this has been a very challenging year for my family and me, but in looking back, I don't think it's been more difficult than other difficult years I've weathered before. The years that Wynn's grandmother, my father, and Wynn's mother died were very traumatic times for us. The grief of those losses lasted for many months and rather than just disappearing, that grief seemed to only be able to slowly fade away as time passed. When I first learned of the advanced stage of my cancer, I grieved....
