Pancreatic Cancer 101

When the Pancreatic Cancer diagnosis comes, it can feel like your whole world is crashing down around you.  A nightmare you just can't escape.

We know.  The ensuing years have not even begun to erase the memories of those first few days and weeks living under the dark cloud of cancer.

I remember the irrational panic, it was just a deep, smothering desperation, an immobilizing fear... a fear that we would lose this life-and-death battle.  A battle we were so ill-prepared to fight...

Those early days of facing the formidable foe of pancreatic cancer have become an integral part of our family's story.  But they are just a part of the story.  The days that followed the diagnosis and the grace that carried us through the journey are what really count.

We have written a series, of sorts, called Mapping the Journey.

The series follows some of our first steps into the Pancreatic Cancer world and might help as you begin to navigate your own journey.

We'd be honored to share the series here...

Mapping the Journey: Pancreatic Cancer 101

This destination, this life... this journey is so vitally important.  It is where life and death hang in the balance.  Where every detour leaves us blinded and panicked... 

How do we handle these dips and curves in the road?  The ups and downs, the roller-coaster journey that cancer drags us through?

We are learning, moment by moment that this is where Grace finds us and carries us...

It is as much a part of the Journey as the doctors and treatment plans and decisions over clinical trials and alternative medicine.

Would you walk with me just a little further?  Down roads where cancer isn't the main attraction?  Where Life Lived Well trumps every dig from cancer's cruel grip?

There is a Way... There is a Peace that covers our path...even a path that is marked by pancreatic cancer.

There's always Grace enough for each day, Always,
                                                                              Jane