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Chemo Mondays
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Attitude of Gratitude
By Tammy Davis Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
~Maltbie D. Babcock My friend's cancer is back. Stage 4. He has a three-day treatment every other week. He gets the chemo on Monday, wears a pump and tubes on Tuesday, and gets it all taken out on Wednesday. For the most part, I know the routine, but sometimes I forget and need to ask if it is a chemo week or an off week. My friend, Wes, is remarkable. He doesn't refer to his chemo schedule that way. He calls his chemo weeks "good weeks" and his off weeks "great weeks." Until recently, those labels irritated me. Every time he referred to his routine that way, I would fuss. "You don't have to be strong all the time. It's okay to be angry." (Keep reading)  
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