The Blue Ridge Parkway is God's Happy Place
My cousin sent me a photo of his wife looking out from atop the Blue Ridge Parkway, looking at the beautiful tableau before them. Me, with my crazy brain, decided that there was more to the story, thus this photo of her touching God. Of course I put my cousin in as one of the cherubs to the right of God. Now, I think the photo makes more sense to me ;)
For my Flickr friends, an update on my health. You've noticed that I haven't posted anything for a while and here is why...
I visited the Mayo Clinic at the end of March. While there we did a PET scan which discovered that cancer had metastasized to my femur. So, we did "Limb Salvage Surgery," essentially a new knee but also the removal of more than half of my femur. Interesting to have the term "salvage" in the description of the surgery, but the reality is the other option would have been to amputate the leg completely. They also did a cryoablation of a large tumor behind my liver and below my diaphragm. We didn't know how large that tumor was but it was almost too big to address for a curative effect. When I returned to Alaska, my oncologist told us to start considering hospice. I think it's a bit early but I suspect I'll go to hospice at the end of this summer or fall. I'm recovering so slowly from my leg operation. I don't know when I'll be able to do any outdoor photography. I'm definitely planning on doing some indoor macro work, so my subject matter will be changing to what I can do.
Thanks for your spiritual support as I move forward in this final segment of my life!
The Blue Ridge Parkway is God's Happy Place
My cousin sent me a photo of his wife looking out from atop the Blue Ridge Parkway, looking at the beautiful tableau before them. Me, with my crazy brain, decided that there was more to the story, thus this photo of her touching God. Of course I put my cousin in as one of the cherubs to the right of God. Now, I think the photo makes more sense to me ;)
For my Flickr friends, an update on my health. You've noticed that I haven't posted anything for a while and here is why...
I visited the Mayo Clinic at the end of March. While there we did a PET scan which discovered that cancer had metastasized to my femur. So, we did "Limb Salvage Surgery," essentially a new knee but also the removal of more than half of my femur. Interesting to have the term "salvage" in the description of the surgery, but the reality is the other option would have been to amputate the leg completely. They also did a cryoablation of a large tumor behind my liver and below my diaphragm. We didn't know how large that tumor was but it was almost too big to address for a curative effect. When I returned to Alaska, my oncologist told us to start considering hospice. I think it's a bit early but I suspect I'll go to hospice at the end of this summer or fall. I'm recovering so slowly from my leg operation. I don't know when I'll be able to do any outdoor photography. I'm definitely planning on doing some indoor macro work, so my subject matter will be changing to what I can do.
Thanks for your spiritual support as I move forward in this final segment of my life!