February 27, 2010 11:00 PM

Kindred spirits!

My wife was supposed to have a business meeting this morning with one of her artist associations. Because of the aftermath of the huge storm that we had Thursday night, only one woman showed up at the house. As it turns out, she is also a cancer survivor. Of course our conversation turned to our respective journeys. She began to share her feelings and opinions with me about how she has handled herself during her transition into remission.

It's amazing how many of her feelings mirror so closely those of my own and also those of other cancer patients,. She found an inner snse of peace when she was diagnosed; she vowed to keep a positive attitude abot the whole experience; and, most importantly, though she would not have desired to have the disease, she is grateful fior it because it revealed to her how many friends and acquaintances that she had who really cared about her and it helped her to get a better understanding of who she was as well. All of these threads seem to run through so many of us cancer patients that it just seems so uncanny! Or is it?

She is also very religious and cannot escape from the fact that God most certainly did not cause her illness but that He has played a huge role in gher overcoming it. Asd I said yesterday, even if I had not been a religious man, this experience would have turned me into one. There is no other explanation as to why things have gone so well for me. Luck! I don't think so!

By the way, a neighbor friend of ours says that Comcast will have us up and running by 6:00 PM on Tuesday. How can they be so precise about the time? And will they credi us for the days that we've had no service? I wouldn't count on it!

There is only one thing to count on - God...

Bob