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Welcome. I started this blog to help me process everything I’m going through. Finding out you have cancer is overwhelming.  So, I needed something to distract me, and that is why I decided to create a blog.  I’m not a writer and I’m awful at grammar but there is something therapeutic of writing it down.  

Of course, it has taken me weeks to actually click the buttons.  I did a lot of thinking about it (yep, I drove Lyle crazy about it), but just the last few days I actually started working on it.  So, I now finally have the courage to share this with the world.  You will see typos and errors, but that’s me, wonderfully flawed. 

I am still learning the blog platform, so it might take me a little time to get everything populated correctly, and it may be hard to follow. Hopefully this old dog can learn some new tricks quickly.  I am trying to post in date order all that has been happening, so you can try to follow along in order, but I am not sure that it really matters.  

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