Our lives change daily and hourly but the majority of the time the changes fall within an expected range of possibilities. With cancer, nothing is expected or unexpected. It goes back to my sister Kathleen’s answer to inquiries as to how Mathew was doing. “Which fifteen minutes are you interested in?” The journal entry and texts messages in this post will represent 15 minutes, a few hours or a moment, a feeling, an event. This is life, specifically, this is life with cancer. From Mathew’s Journal May 8 Dr. Donovan Therapy - most helpful- least burdensome. - 1 every other week start there and then change - goal - give some thought into how your beliefs and intellectual pursuits dovetail with being plastered to the chair. -being plastered to the chair could be an opportunity for greater awareness or it could be just an obstacle to pass to get to the good stuff. TEXTS BETWEEN MATHEW AND MOM (I needed to go to the grocery
A Journey through Sarcoma is a chronicle of my son's journey through Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Sarcoma. It is intended to educate and inspire by using Mathew’s thoughts and feelings, dreams and fears through a variety of mediums; art, music and writing. Sarcomas are the rarest cancers and predominantly affect the young. This is the story of Sarcoma.