Saturday, October 18, 2025

#6 Miles of the Journey Through the Rapids of Cancer- A Walk in the Swamp at Night

 The end of a week off from chemotherapy, and I feel surprisingly good.  But the unknown is out there.  I have a little less than a year of this left.  It seems like a long time to live on the edge of your seat, but it's my only choice.  

I walk for about an hour nonstop most mornings.  Reports are that exercise gives me the best chance for treatment success and side effect minimization.  I would have exercised anyway.   

But it seems like a hold your breath, wait and see game; a long trudge through the night in the swamp, slow going, sometimes hard to make forward progress.  Sometimes not caring much at all about how it all goes.  It is a plethora of emotions you sometimes can't see coming.  

But, hear the sound of the sound of the water moving as I step forward.  And there is the sucking of the mud when I pull my loss from a place where the poor footing stopped me.  This is so much like endurance sports.  Maybe that's how God prepared me for this?


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