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  • To mask or not to mask

    The 3rd month after the cancer diagnosis was bookended by the start of the first chemotherapy infusion and the completion of the second one. God has been gracious to me as I have been experiencing only mild side-effects like nausea and fatigue which have not impacted my daily life. The nice thing is that I…

  • Day 0 + 2 months

    The first month of my journey was marked by an open brain surgery to remove a tumor in my cerebellum. The past month has been quite eventful with radiation, pain and chemotherapy. After the surgery of tumor removal, a follow-up radiation treatment using Gamma Knife was needed to kill any microscopic cancer cell residual around…

  • Pain in the Neck

    “Pain in the neck” is more polite way of complaining that someone or something is kind of annoying. It takes on a literal meaning for me at this stage of my journey and it started a few months ago in Hong Kong. During last Christmas, our family went back to Hong Kong to see relatives.…

  • A Tale of Two Trials

    Praise the Lord for helping me to get through the 5 days of Gamma Knife radiation treatment on my brain last week. We now got used to leaving home early and driving up to San Francisco. The treatment started particularly early at 7am on Thursday which meant that we got to wake up at 5am.…

  • Day 0 + 1 month

    Today is the one month anniversary from the day when we started taking on this new journey. It might be helpful to write down what has happened in the past month so that we will not forget. On 3/17/2025, Rebecca went to the ER after a few weeks of dizziness and nausea with the solemn…