Windrunners Blog

In this blog and the accompanying book Cancer's Windrunners, I want to share with you what I have learned from a group of amazing patients who journeyed with God through their cancers. They seemed to live lives of more purpose, meaning and joy — and often longer than I ever expected. Whatever was going on with them I wanted — and wanted to pass on to my other patients. HERE IT IS IN BLOG FORM.

For opportunities of a secular journey in a life with cancer, see the Bell Lap Blog.

1 - DEALING WITH THE UNCERTAINTY THAT CAN PARALYZE

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Everyone diagnosed with cancer is confronted with a caliedescope of uncertainties, some of which can be overcome and others only managed. Some lives are defeated, some slowly decay and some are propelled onward triumphantly. I call them WINDRUNNERS. 

This blog and book focuses on the triumphant ones, what their lives looked like, the decisions they made, what enabled their success and what it takes to join their ranks. 

2- WHAT CANCER AND GRIZZLY BEARS HAVE IN COMMON

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I was all alone 3000 miles north of my Seattle home when it came rambling rudely into my life. It walked right out of the fever dreams of my childhood and out of the Yukon tundra and taught me something that not only my cancer patients, but God had been trying to teach me for years – something the Windrunners already knew. Naked from an arctic stream plunge before making the dinner campfire, I came face to face with an animal drawn to the smell of food and looking for dinner.

3 - UNDERSTANDING WHERE WE ARE, THEN WHERE TO GO

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A DISEASE AND AN ILLNESS

Cancer is both a disease and an illness. One affects your organs and the other your life At first, you cannot detect either one until something vital stops working properly – either you hurt or your life hurts. The disease comes from injured genes, toxins or a virus while the illness comes from something I call the Dragon. The doctors battle the disease but it is up to you to deal with the illness and the Dragon.

5 - YOU CAN DO THIS

Submitted by Dr. Robert F. Lane on

Some patients feel they have written every chapter of their lives carefully, tried hard, planned ahead, done everything right or at least done their best. Then along came cancer, presenting them with a chapter they have no idea how to write and their script comes to an end. They begin to flounder. For them I hope this blog/book-to-be will provide some clues and direction.

YOU CAN DO THIS

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