The new normal

Life is strange. That really sums it up right there. I've always said, it is what it is. I think I was right there too.

Certain changes in life you expect and prepare for. Things like high school graduation, or college, or a new job. Dealing with a long term illness, that hits out of the blue.....well it's strange. The emotional side is very hard to explain. When it comes, you are fighting like heck to be tough, and make it through. It consumes every ounce of your existence. When it's in remission your left standing there, having beat it back, wondering what now? Will it strike again out of the blue like before, is it gone forever, what now? Like I say, it's strange. Sheri and I call this the new normal. You always want life to go back to what it was. The song writer Chris Rice has a song called The Eighth Grade, in it he remembers the time back then with fond memories. The chorus is the best part as he says: why do we look back so fondly at those time, maybe it's because at least we know we made it. The unknown is difficult to process, after all it could be anything.

Hope and Faith are what brings us through. Keep an watchful eye out for the enemy, but don't let it consume you like it does during the fight. If you do, it has won. We are moving into our new normal. Today we are going for Sheri's every three week Herseptin. We're taking my Mom with us as she has some appointments at the clinic too.

God has blessed us with the strength to fight, and the joy to enjoy remission. In the weeks and months to come we may be less consistent with our blogging. As new news comes, as always, we will share it. We plan to boat (mostly float because it cost to much to run the engine), camp, and swim the summer away. We have a few small trips planned, but we're not big world travelers, we like where we live and plan to enjoy it to the fullest. I'll keep working on the house as time permits, and someday we'd like to build our dream house on piece of property we bought a year ago. We're patient with that, as other things took a priority these last six months. As always we're pushing forward, and looking up.

Brett