The end of 2025 was interesting, if you consider spending Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve with your spouse in the hospital that way. In the overall context of the previous year, it presented me with chances to not only grow professionally; but as a person, and husband/father/grandfather too.
2026 so far, is looking to be a lot of the same as the end of 2025 was. But hopefully it’ll only be this way for January. There are just a handful of chemo and radiation treatments left, and coupled with the daily antibiotic treatments for the remainder of the month … it’s a lot. But I soldier on nevertheless.