A free form discussion based around the day’s devotion from Treasury of Daily Prayer on KFUO AM’s Afternoon Show with Rolland and Diane.
Archive for June, 2009
Treasury of Daily Prayer: Spring Skip – 2009
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
While Spring Skip may sound like a dance, this is a reminder for Treasury users that Holy Trinity closes the Time of the Church, and that tomorrow you will have to move several pages forward–to June 8– to find the correct day’s devotion.
For those using the seasonal propers for Matins and/or Vespers, they are found on the black-tipped pages in the center of the book, page O-68.
on KFUO AM 6.03.2009
Friday, June 5th, 2009
A free form discussion based around the day’s devotion from Treasury of Daily Prayer on KFUO AM’s Afternoon Show with Rolland and Diane.
Prostate Cancer Journal: The Choices We Make
Monday, June 1st, 2009
With treatment, I am not very likely going to die as a result of my prostate cancer, as my father before me did. The scoring and grading complete, I am among those with a 90% chance of being prostate-cancer-free through at least the next ten years (10 years is pretty much the extent of the data), and can look forward to being a cancer survivor. Thanks be to God that such mercy has been given to me.
While my prognosis is just about the best that one could hope for, I am at somewhat of a loss before a buffet of good treatment options. Advancements in medicine offer those with prostate cancer a plethora of choices of excellent treatments: da Vince, brachytherapy, IMRT, IGRT, clinical trials, active surveillance, proton beams, HIFU, laparoscopic robotic radical prostatectomy, cryotherapy. While the biopsy was certainly uncomfortable and nerve-wracking, and the news that I had cancer invoked rage and fear, having to pick my own treatment may yet be the most agonizing part of this journey through prostate cancer so far. (more…)