Getting Well

Things are better every day. My voice is almost back to normal. Those who heard me a week ago marvel at how much stronger my voice sounds now.

I could not break a whisper until about Sept. 20 when I started to get a little bit of timber back into my voice in the mornings. By nightfall it was back to ony a whisper. Now it is strong almost all day.

The coughing still comes and goes and I cannot find any connection. Perhaps it is caused by alergies as one ENT suggested. I will be doing fine and suddenly get a throat tickle that leads to a cough that leads to harder coughing that leads to gut-wrenching coughing. It soon goes away and will not bother me again for hours -- sometimes 12 or 14 hours, sometimes just five or six.

But under any token I am feeling stronger each day. I have a followup with my radiation oncologist on Oct. 4. Can't wait to get the all-clear from him as further testimony to God's healing love.