Give me strength: Part 2

“What is joy without sorrow? What is success without failure? What is a win without a loss? What is health without illness? You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. There is always going to be suffering. It is how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it that will define you.”
― Mark Twain

Yesterday, my post may have taken some of you by surprise. If you’ve learned nothing else from this blog, you should have learned by now, I’m a fighter. So far, my track-record it pretty good. I have accomplished and experienced plenty. I have fought and survived the rare and aggressive.

I flipped my wig yesterday, but with good reason. There is a chance (minor) that surgery could be postponed due to the new bacterial infection. Again, it is a small chance, but for my own sanity this procedure needs to be completed. And like every struggle from childhood to the teenage years, through college, into the real world, marriage, cancer, divorce, remission, and setbacks, I’ll beat the snot out of this next huddle.

I have a ton of living still to do. I need to golf. I need to run a 5K. I need to visit St. Louis with Gabe. I need to sit on top of the Green Monster, fire a crossbow, and witness the changing of the guard.

I use this blog as therapy. If you get inspiration, a few minutes of entertainment, or nothing at all, I will continue writing. I am an emotionally driven individual. I am learning to release these emotions instead of burying them and eventually exploding.

I am going to be fine. I’m a survivor. I’m a fighter. I’m a dad and a damn good one. I have NO regrets. There may be some second thoughts but NO regrets. Every struggle has shaped me into a loveable, sometimes short tempered, over-emotional, but devoted, funny, and caring son, brother, father, and friend. I will continue to be sporadic and continue to try to help and inspire those who fight every day.

Cheers!