From Garrett:

Tuesday was my first round of chemotherapy. I sat in a chair in a room with about a dozen other patients in the room, and got the drip for about five hours, and they sent me home with a pump that continues to drip for the next 46 hours.

I know that I have to stay mentally, strong. My Mantra is, “I am healthy, strong whole and complete”, and I repeat that out loud, several times through the day. I want to hear myself say that, and it is a lot easier to believe it when I feel good, thanks to the pain medication.

When I am curled up in the fetal position with so much pain, it is very hard to imagine a strong and healthy life, if you know what I mean, but thank God for the pain meds. They do keep the edge off, and make it a lot easier to imagine a wonderful future.

The doctors give me a 50/50 percent chance of living through the next year and after that, a 25% chance of the next. Medically speaking, and if you look at my charts, time is very short, but I know that I have a secret superpower.

My superpower is my faith in God, my family and friends, and the outpouring & abundance of love and kindness that have been poured out upon me. The other very important thing that I am very firm on, is to keep the spirit of God in my home and in my environment. I can see God’s hand, and His blessings in so many ways already with this. I have seen healing at such a big level within my own little family.💕

Day 2. Thank goodness for peppermint candy:🙏

This is all a new and exciting journey. In the middle of taking a very jalapeno hershey squirt. I was fighting back the vomiting. Too messy to risk toilet rotation. Bathroom would have looked like a crime scene for sure. 🤢