Jonathan's Story - The Beginning

JONATHAN:  Hello. My name is Jonathan. About 2 years ago, during the seventh month of my wife's pregnancy with our first child, I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Needless to say, instantly, everything in our lives changed. In a matter of seconds, we went from expecting parents to expecting one of us to die.

Day Two

Jonathan's Cancer here. My plan has hit a few bumps, but I think we're getting back on track. It took forever to get Jonathan out of bed and seated. First he had to disconnect from all these feeding tubes and IVs, then he fell back asleep. I finally had to engineer a gentle little fall out of bed to wake him up. Don't worry. Jonathan's fine. He falls down and out of bed all the time.

Welcome

Hi.  I'm Jonathan's cancer.  Jonathan was supposed to start this blog something like a year ago, but he's -- well, to be honest, he's scared. I guess I can't blame him, sort of. Just mentioning my name, Cancer, is scary to people in general.  Jonathan has been cut up, poked by needles, poisoned, zapped with radiation, and been subjected to more endoscopies and procedures and complications than anyone I know. But still, I was like, this shit has to stop. This has to be written down. My legacy can't go undocumented.  Jonathan wanted to write too, and maybe he had different motivations than I did, but I needed him.  Cancer doesn't type. But, Jonathan kept whining about being too sick or too tired or he didn't feel like it. Anyway, long story short, fully knowing Jonathan's desire to write a blog as well, I agreed to step up and help, be his writing partner so to speak... If he named the blog after me. First part of the deal, done, but I still have doubts about him. To make it easy,  I said I'd start it off, and he could then just step in and follow my lead. This is our first post. We'll see.