Dear Facebook: Thanks for the Reminder
With Dave’s recent move to “retirement” (aka long-term disability), the continued progression of his idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and the extreme stress of trying to sell our house amid an uncertain geo-political environment, I have lost sight of myself and as a result, I have been living with a perpetual black cloud above my head and the weight of the world on my shoulders. That’s where Facebook comes in – daily memories of life past. These days, FB has been serving up plenty of memories from that turbulent time three years ago. This photograph was taken March 13, 2022 at one of our favourite local restaurants. It was our first night out since the previous October. I was nine days away from starting 6 weeks of daily radiation treatments, and very happy to be out of the house and someplace other than the cancer centre. I thought I looked pretty good here, thinking that no one would know that I was in the middle of battling cancer. H...