tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post1433710942083454385..comments2024-01-17T04:14:40.892-05:00Comments on A Pastor's Cancer Diary: January 28, 2008 - Life Lost in LivingCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00540884672406337833noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post-71434817002122607732008-01-30T16:54:00.000-05:002008-01-30T16:54:00.000-05:00Hmm, see the people who attend thefuneral before y...Hmm, see the people who attend the<BR/>funeral before your death and disposal.<BR/>I read the article, it doesn't mention when the subject died.<BR/><BR/>Nonetheless, weird. have already my plans; short and sweet cause once I'm dead somebody else can worry<BR/> about my mortal being.<BR/> That's the advantage of pre=planning.<BR/><BR/>Like you Carl, am in remission although receiving copious amounts of rituximab every three months or so for the next four years. My second time for drip injection is this coming Friday February 01.08.<BR/><BR/>We survivors of cancer treatment who are in remission and hope to stay that way, often find it difficult to get started where things turned the wrong way. You've probably had your weekly sermons to prepare which probably helped keep your mind off your own self. Ministering to a congregation as <BR/>employment albeit a bit different<BR/>than most however you're still a person, with feelings and as such yes your religious background no doubt helps you over the rough spots. However you've had some doubts about things no doubt that no religious being will smooth;<BR/>and for those, I suspect this blog has helped in its own way.<BR/><BR/>As a retired transportation journalist can well understand how just writing can sooth the savaged nerves. And although retired, still receive my share of assignments from various places;<BR/>for which I decline with thanks. <BR/><BR/>I write to me myself and I,really don't feel as if the world of the internet needs to know my being. <BR/><BR/>Must admit though, with the number <BR/>of blogs devoted to NHL (Not the <BR/>National Hockey League) that maybe my blogging to me may seem like just another entry. BTW I did enjoy the Gene Wilder sketch;<BR/> a very real person,<BR/> one of the old school when<BR/>humour was polite, funny and understandable. <BR/><BR/>If and when things for me settle, I might appear in your congregation one Sunday; you seem to me to be a person who enjoys his job, for <BR/>ministering is a job; however as noted a "different" job. Like a<BR/>funeral director, sometimes you take your work home with you whether you want to or not.<BR/><BR/>Keep smiling Carl we've all done very well. Now to return to whatever we were before<BR/> this unfortunate speed bump in our lives.<BR/><BR/>Bryce Lee<BR/>Burlington, OntarioBrycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15760433604853253299noreply@blogger.com