If you: Test Postive (for cancer). Then: Think Positive (it will help with your treatment). And: Be Positive (others will be inspired by you). If you've ever tested positive for cancer (or any other serious disease for that matter), then it can be really hard to think...

We were supposed to leave for the sunny beaches of Hawaii on September 30th of last year. We hadn't taken a real vacation in a long time and we were excited to celebrate our third wedding anniversary! Nick hadn't been to any of the islands for years and I had never been...

(download) Click here to download: should-be-about-hawaii-instead-it-s-about-kirkland-ibzIunkHBqaplEFzkkij.zip (555 KB) I had planned on getting a terrific blog post up about our post-cancer Hawaii trip (which went amazingly...

It was weird being in Omaha again, but we tried to enjoy it all the same. The doctors and their teams were great as usual as nick underwent two sets of MRI's and blood work. Nick actually commented that the man who did his blood draw was so great that he didn't even feel...

The last month has gone by in a flurry. We've been focusing on Nick getting better. Nick's been taking it easy, eating the right foods and striving to get better... And, we think it's worked!! At least, as far as the incision is concerned - he has healed. It's now a...

Last weekend, Nick and I had a chance to run around the little shops in downtown Monroe. We had some fun playing with the antiques and taking pictures together. He still gets tired really fast and sleeps a lot but it's times like these that make it all worth it...

Hooray! More positive affirmations! Everything seemed to check out well at our appointment downtown today! Heres a little review of the answers to our most pressing questions. The swollen areas are probably just inflammation continuing from the surgery. They said it...

DR WHITING TODAY. Today we are heading off to Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to meet with Nick's local oncologist. We'll be going over more information about what's the come. Not sure that we will really have any new information. I just think it will be a review of what...

Nick's incision had a hard time closing up. For almost three weeks after the surgery, it was bleeding quite a bit out of one spot below his belly button and one spot at the top of the incision. It was definitely hard being so far away from our doctor because I just didnt...