This post was “The New Normal” but apparently Joseph feels even more strongly that that is an irritating expression.
What an appalling phrase. It’s only used when you’re adjusting to something tremendously bad, and yet there’s this veneer like it could be anything (good or bad) that’s happened. It’s a euphemism that doesn’t even try to be happy; like the best it could manage is to pretend to be neutral. Blech.
And yet, here we are. All unbalanced looking for any normal.
So everyone knows by now – Joseph has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. With cancer.
We’re still in the testing phase. We don’t know what stage the disease is at, or when treatment will begin (though we expect progress on both of those questions this week).
I’ll be posting more as I know more.
Oh, and apparently Hodgkins lymphoma is violet.