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Tonight I uploaded episode 9 of the Healing Hut. In this episode I refinish my French doors, cover up a glulam beam with a 120-year-old Douglas fir timber, pick up a couple of windows, and start the process of building loft railings. Thanks so much for your kindness, interest, and support. Making these videos gives me…
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One of the consequences of being a candid person with little filter and sometimes saying confusing or provocative things, I am often misunderstood. That is on me. A well-meaning person recently said, “Mike, I’m sorry someone hurt your feelings and you’re not coming back to church.” I certainly understand, based on what I’ve written here,…
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I have started to write this article many times and in many ways. However, I always deleted it in the end because of my fear of being misunderstood. That may be on me. But as the Miranda Rights proclaim, “Anything you say can and will be used against you.” I posted this on my sister-blog,…
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Recently I was going through all of our debit card payments, looking forhidden subscriptions that I could cancel. To my surprise, my old blog site,“The Christian Monist” was still active, although I had not postedthere since 2016. The purpose of that site, which I had maintained for more than a decade, wastrying to make sense…
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Five years this week, January 11th 2019, I was taken to Peace Health ICU as I was fighting for my life. My potassium level (due to previously unknown renal failure) was 12 mmol/L, clearly far above the lethal level . . . and they could not get it down. It looked grave. After many tests…
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I still have my self-gag order in place, when it comes to writing here. Today I’m in the hospital doing a chemo infusion, and as they say, idleness is the Devil’s workshop. I will avoid saying anything about Christianity as to give fodder to someone who wants to misunderstand my point and use it to…
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Tomorrow I have my annual visit with my myeloma specialist in the morning and my visit with local oncologist as well as my chemo infusion in the afternoon. I will not know if my cancer is still in remission until my labs are back on Wednesday. I will do another post if there are any…
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I have my weekly cottage builing update, a couple of days early to avoid the Christmas rush. This is my first real-time episode, where I filmed as I worked. This segment is about wrapping the cottage in a vapor barrier. This will conclude my heavy lifting epoch of construction as I will be transitioning into…
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I hav a new “Cancer Cottage / Healing Hut” episode, which will be episode 5 and is about building the roof with SIP (structrual inlsulated panels) and then metal roofing installation, both were incredible challenges. This will be my final “retrograde” episode, where I am story telling with a few photos. Going forward, my episodes…
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I spent the day doing my monthly IV chemo in Mount Vernon. It went well. Labs drawn, but the cancer results won’t be back until later in the week. I was reflecting this morning about where I was three years ago. Cancer still active, stem cell transplant having failed. There wasn’t much to be optimistic…