in 1994 when i was just a young EMT-Basic one of my instructors gave me some sage wisdom in regards to meal consumption while working in an ambulance. This advice was to always eat my french fries first, french fries do not microwave well and are really only good when you get them initially, so Read More…
Category: My Cancer
The Great What if.
Lately I am finding it harder and harder to do things, its becoming harder to get out of bed, its becoming harder to walk, and I am having a harder time to doing any of the life tasks I was able to do a few weeks ago. I am also having a strange drumming in Read More…
A Long Bout of Depression
Things have been kinda rough for me of late, the stress of my upcoming surgery, learning to be a dispatcher, and functioning within my limitations might be catching up with me. Last Thursday was the three year anniversary of my first cancer diagnosis, and coincidently Friday was when my second bout of cancer was confirmed Read More…
Updates On Pelvic Surgery
Recently I messaged my pelvic surgeon about the possibility of doing the titanium procedure with the addition of stem cells to help make the graft more a part of me. I had researched this quite a bit and it sounded like I would be a good candidate. The one thing I didn’t take into account Read More…
In a Single Flash of Lightening
I speak a lot about living in the moment, years of EMS work and general life have taught me that live for the moment, let go of the past as best you can, and live like tomorrow you could be gone. Tell your children you are proud of them, even when they are just making Read More…
Cancer and its Mental Trauma
September 8th of this year will mark 23 years of EMS experience for me, in that time I have treated everything from sprained toes and the flu all the way to babies murdered by mothers too drunk to understand why we wont let he see her baby. When I first started we were told in Read More…
A Little Bit of Everything
Its been a wild week, from finding out my pelvis is broken and needing replacement to setting the ground work for my next photo-shoot. One of the things that has happened this week is a significant outpouring of support for my impending procedure and not a little bit of fear regarding all the things that Read More…
“Chris’s Great Pelvis Adventure Part 2”
Today I took the giant step to name the journey for the next few months, The first round in 2014 was refereed to as “Operation Freeloader”, The recurrence in 2016 was of course “The Great Pelvis Adventure, Everything goes wrong” So I here by christen this as “The Great Pelvis Adventure Part 2, Putting Right Read More…
Going Forward and the Future
Mondays news although not wholly unexpected it was still a bit of a shock. I spent most of Monday frantically trying to come to grips with things while simultaneously trying to get my head screwed back on straight. Yesterday was a bit better, I called my companies short term disability agency as well as started Read More…
So Yesterday Kinda Sucked
Following yesterdays news that my pelvic surgery would need to be revised this fall I was understandably in a state of shock. After a night of sleep and some time alone to wrestle with my internal demons I came to grips with what was going on and started a plan. The ultimate realization is that Read More…