Thought for the Day 4/7/2023
Friday Tale - Find the Good Humor K atie was a young woman with a great, big problem. She was a teenager dying of leukemia. Katie's mother wrote to me and told me how her daughter approached her disease. She told about a time, shortly after a bone marrow transplant, when Katie's head was “slickly bald,” as she put it. One day Katie heard the doctor coming on rounds and ducked into the bathroom. Her mother heard her giggling and asked, "Katie, what is so funny?" She put her finger to her lips, pulled a Nike ski cap onto her head and crawled into bed. When the doctor came in, she said, "Well, Miss Katie! How are you feeling today?" Katie frowned and said, "I am OK, I guess... but I just have this splitting headache." She pulled off her ski cap and there on her bald head was a huge red crack, which she had drawn with a marker. As the doctor recovered from her initial shock, the room exploded in la...