My results have come in early, and like I said there’s much at state with this. I’ve been on a new chemo for 4 weeks and it was to check if it was working. The best measurement for my kind of Multiple Myeloma is following the Lambda Light Chain Proteins. Normal is 26.3. When I…

Health Update: For anyone who has had or has cancer, or any other serious illness, you are familiar with the test-angst. After a while, at least for me, it become so mundane, that even though the test will tell you if you are going to live or die, you eventually loose the angst. You have…

I had unfinished business with this last podcast and I wanted to finish up with a part II. You can listen here.

There is a myth within the Bible-belt (and other areas of religious cultures) that the more spiritually-minded someone is, the less the sting of death. I turn this on its head by saying, those who know God best, mourn death the deepest. You can listen here.

People have been asking, so I thought I would respond here. One week deep into a new and aggressive chemo program, one that had a list of potential side effects that would make a chemical weapons expert cringe, I am happy to announce that the side effects have been minimal. Side effects can always appear…

I am continuing to work on my most recent novel, The Stones of Yemen. At this juncture, I’m involved with the arduous process of finding a literary agent to represent this work to major publishing houses. Previously I had either self-published books or published them through a small publisher with a narrow market. I do…

Back under the watchful eye of chemo. I started my new chemo capsule first thing this morning and then had a grueling, 9-hour infusing session today and it went well. The monoclonal antibody cocktail has risks of a lot of immediate side effects (cytokine storm the worse). I had one brief episode like the rapid…

Summary It was six weeks ago today when I went to the lab for my routine, every 90 days, labs. Unfortunately, I noticed the correct labs were not done and I had to advocate to get the correct ones. Two weeks later, with the correct labs, it was clear my cancer was out of remission.…

Are we in the “Dim Age?” Western civilization is cycling once again through an age when “mysticism” or experience have become vogue while reason and the search for classical truth have been relegated to the boring, “unspiritual,” or unimportant. Unlike the “Dark Ages” there is not a complete abandonment of truth and reason this time,…

PET scan was done yesterday and the results are in. I am thankful that there are no new lesions in the bones. I have two that were there three years ago and have become dormient. This is good news. My bone marrow biopsy will be back in two weeks. My new treatments are still not…