This past Sunday, I was able to meet up with a fellow member, Sean accompanied by his wife Nancy, belong to my church Ward. Sean was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, shortly before me finding out about my gastric carcinoma.

Though we suffer and endure very different cancers, diagnoses, treatment protocols, and prognoses; there are a number of striking similarities in our receipt of love, support, and…side effects…that binds us together more than the divergent elements of cancer symptoms that divide us.

We talked for several hours, in detail, about how we found out (equally and amazingly somewhat by happenstance). We both had endured some recent difficult times and were hoping for some rewarded blessings after the trials, but instead we got cancer – which we both have acknowledged that this moment of adversity is most likely a type of blessing in preparing us for something more. #Positivity

Beyond these Google gems that we shared, we concluded our visit talking about how to manifest hope and support for a cure.

More importantly though, we discovered the appropriate Cancer Support Ribbon color to wear in honor of you respective diagnosis.

• Gastric carcinoma (stomach cancer) wears Periwinkle Blue and should be celebrated during the month of November.
• Multiple Myeloma (blood cancer) sports Burgundy in March.

A T-shirt is coming soon if you want to support my journey…color: Periwinkle Blue, design in-works. I am already thinking of things to do during the celebration month of November! #Epic

A future post I am crafting now will highlight many of the discussion points from that day with Sean to include the state of existing medical opinions/care (experts), expounding on spiritual healing (support structure), and mental/physical efforts (meditation, counseling, and exercise).

How is that for a tease! Now I just have to execute this plan during the hardest chemo infusion to date. This means that it could be up tomorrow…or sometime next week, depending on how I feel. 😫🤢🤮