Recent content by HWatts

Thank you all for the clarifications and comments. I had a pretty uncomfortable few weeks after the second chemo tx May 11, with today finally bringing relief, so I'm good. Hopefully, my next CT in a few weeks will be clear and I won't need another round soon, but that's another day's issue...

So what do you dislike about my posts? Feedback/critique can be useful to me.

I didn't quote the entire phrase, but did get the tense correct as written. Regardless, you are correct, I'd use whatever tense were appropriate for the occasion. Basic back works, too. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep into...

correction: sun creep to its set may use that in a poem sometime

Had an extremely painful night - but feel fine now, I hasten to add. Tried to suffer alone, but after a few hours found myself in further need of nurse assistance than I could provide for myself. So had to awaken Christine (we are both retired RNs), who began scolding me rather sharply for not...

Awakened from a truncated nap yesterday afternoon by a bit of pain, I slowly arose from my power recliner, and abandoned my pursuit of a power nap. I stood for two or three seconds before I lost my balance and fell. Back into the recliner. Not an unusual occurrence, unfortunately, which is...

Thank you again for the kind words. I understand that liver cancer is the only type currently treatable in this way; a unique and elite disease, when only the best will do. Yeah, prodigious means highly productive to me, until I write a sentence like, "He was prodigious in applying his...

Okay, you're my agent. :) I was writing at a high college level as a seventh-grader, and it was one of the ways I had fun. I think mainly because I was always reading - sometimes a book-a-day, sometimes five - so grammar and style came to me intuitively. I do have a small group of readers...

Since I was a seventh-grader. Should have. Life. You know?

Alpha Good by HWatts In the beginning was the Word and God said, "Let there be light." Good. The Word was with God and God said, "Let the sky separate from the waters." Good. The Word was God and God said, "Let dry land appear." Good. He, the Word, was with God in the beginning and God...

Thank you so much for your prayer. Praying has value, power. If you are praying, then that's useful, and maybe you're doing more good down here than you realize. My usual prayer is a request that He be merciful, and I leave what that entails and the timing to Him.

Just prior to the chemo procedure Monday - yep, anesthesia - I finally heard the results of the first dose about 4 months ago, and the news was better than I dared hope (okay, I dared). The response of the 2" tumor was complete. "It's nothing but ash, but there is a pea-sized one a few inches...

Had my second chemo treatment yesterday. The doc puts tiny little beads of the med straight into the tumor, so that I have few symptoms... mild pain, moderate at times with an internal burning sensation at the site, a Lortab once a day takes care of it. Twice, if needed. Dr. order one every...

Hang It On The Cross by Logan Parker Mar 22, 2006 If you have a secret sorrow, a burden or a loss, an aching need for healing... Hang It On The Cross. If worry steals your sleep and makes you turn and toss, if your heart is feeling heavy... Hang It On The Cross. Every obstacle to...

Very nice, Elizabeth. I do find the phrase "hinders to presumption" vague, but then, it is poetry and that may be just what you wanted, though I thought you perhaps meant the idea of "The certainty changes to presumption' (not those words but the idea) rather than the idea of certainty...