As We Go

This is Mon. We left home at 6 am in the rain (yes, it rained). Both Dirk and I had blood work drawn. Dirk had his neupogen shot . Then a breakfast break. Dirk went to apheresis for the harvesting of the stem cells at 9:30 and I have had chest x-rays and am waiting for an EKG. I have 2 more appointments after this. The lady next to me is jokingly  remarking that her hair is coming back but not the color she wanted and hoped it would not be gray again. Humor helps. It really really does. The other night the 4 of us were playing cards and for awhile we laughed and forgot about the gravity of it all. A phone rings and another person says it makes you want to dance. We in the room are in this together. The lady next to me just showed us what looked like an ultra sound picture or pet scan of her lung cancer tumor before and after radiation. She just went to go visit with someone else who is also getting radiation. The common bond of illness and suffering and hope and healing. It's all stirred together into one when we come to MD Anderson from all over the  country and the world. Cancer knows no boundaries.