And just to remind me (and you) that it's not all about me...

While I'm getting all this good news and merrily preparing for chemo, a good friend -- someone who, with his wife, opened his home to me on a very bad weekend, who witnessed my son's baptism, and who was a leader in our church's moving to acceptance of GLBT people, is dying of pancreatic cancer. This, after more than 10 years of battling a progressive brain disease similar (but not the same as) Alzheimer's, which hit him at a very young age.

The end for him is very close.

Those of you who do the praying thing, please pray for John, Peggi, and their children Morgan and Colby.