Matt Gurney@mattgurney
I want to provide a brief update and an explanation of why some of you haven't heard back from me after reaching out.
First of all, my wife's treatment continues. We are deep in the chemo grind. It's too soon to say how it's going, in terms of the ultimate result. But she's had an encouraging result thus far and has tolerated the awful reality of chemo well. I couldn't be prouder of her. The future I dreamed of and took for granted is being bought every time she sits in that infusion chair and suffers. I hate that. It's awful. But it is, in the words of WASP men everywhere, what it is.
Many of you, on a fairly regular basis, are asking for updates. I don't give personal updates on request. I'm not being a dick about this. I'm just trying to preserve my sanity. It's A LOT to get 10-15 people "just checking in" every day. It means I can't ever escape cancer. I'll be trying to work and relax and my phone will ding and, oops, now I'm giving a well-meaning person a full medical update and I'm right back in it again.
So I'm not doing that. Key family and friends get regular updates as necessary and warranted by medical developments. My public statements are going to be more rare.
But we're still here. She's going amazing. I am so proud of her and grateful for her.
I told her the other day that she's more than just my dream come true — and she was, in ways she will probably never understand. She's STILL my dream. All my dreams of the future life I wanted and once expected were centred around her being here with me. Where we'd be. What we'd do. Things we would do and go together.
The details changed, but never the core. She herself was, and is, my hopes and dreams.
It's a hard diagnosis and a hard fight. But she's doing as well as I could have expected. Maybe even a bit better.
I know many of you have been praying for her and our family. I ask that you keep doing that. It might be working.
MG
