zac | March 11, 2010
The past few days have taken their toll. The cancer in my abdomen is growing. I can feel it expanding with my fingertips. The pain is getting worse. Every day is worse than the day before. I am taking pain medicine around-the-clock now. I sleep about 60-90 minutes at a time. I yearn for an [...]
zac | March 1, 2010
God is so good. Here is the video of my story that was used at NewSpring this week.
Thanks again to Adam Kring for making this creation. PS: I beat Adam in H-O-R-S-E while filming this.
zac | February 25, 2010
I, like most, had a best friend in junior high with whom I did everything. We hung out at our homes together and we shared common interests — like our Macintosh Plus games and science fiction movies. We had a saying or a motto that we said all the time and inscribed on our notebooks: [...]
zac | February 15, 2010
I have spent many hours thinking and reflecting on what will happen to me upon my death. It occurs to me now that much of that has been quite selfish.
I suppose I have always wondered about heaven. What will it be like? There is so much we know about heaven from the Bible and there [...]
zac | January 25, 2010
So I am back in the chemo ward. I am now doing a maintenance regimen to keep the tumors on my liver dormant. That involves a similar strategy as before: Leucovorin and 5FU given once a day for five days straight; repeat every month. The purpose of this is simply for the liver and has [...]
zac | January 19, 2010
A friend asked me to compile some of my favorite blog posts. As I reflected on my blog, the past year has been momentous for me because it was the year that I found out I had cancer. So, my “favorites” seem to all have something to do with cancer. If I met someone for [...]
zac | December 29, 2009
As I sit here precariously close to the year 2010, I must admit there were a few days of 2009 when I did not think I would make it this far. Cancer is a beast and a pain; yet with the help of my doctors, my friends, family and colleagues, my three kids, my amazing [...]
zac | December 9, 2009
I have been feeling pretty weak lately. Chemo continues to take a toll on my body. Fatigue abounds. And through it all, the pain of the tumors in my abdomen is constant. I do not know how to quantify or qualify the pain except to say that the persistence of it has left me with [...]
