Whats in a Name?

You may have not noticed but I changed the name of the blog. I have been thinking of changing it for a while.  The original name “Noah’s Big Battle” indicates just one encounter even if it is massive. And this is most definitely a series of battles. As well as gaining intelligence on the enemies. My big surgery on the twentieth will definitely be the definitive battle of the war. The radiation and chemo after would be the after sweeps clearing the area,’

So going with that logic I changed the name from “Noah’s Big Battle” to “Noah’s Personal War.” Moreover that name sounded true; at least at the outset.  After all cancer is a very private thing. Even those who know about it and know what it’s doing; they don’t know it on an intimate level. For a grouping of cells it certainly feels like a malicious evil army.

Although a personal battle would be me against this “other army” all by myself. And if there is one thing I’m not it’s me being alone. I have a whole contingent of family, friends, congregants of the temple I go to and well wishers.  I knew from the get go I knew I could count on my friends I knew that I could count on them. Even though my friend Mark just had his first son, Jake, I knew I could count on him. Many of my friends have written amazing and thought provoking letters. I was raised with the belief that friends were family that you choose.

Next would be family. I love my mother’s side of the family. And they love me. And I’ll talk in a future blog about their help; especially my grandparents. Now however I’ll talk about my father’s side of the family. I often joke that the family is so big and close that it’s not even a family anymore; it is its own institution. They’ve always been available to help out when ever my family has needed it. People are amazed at the closeness between my father and his cousins.

So for these reasons, and a couple more that I wasn’t able to get into, I took the personal out of the title. As you probably saw or now see. The name of the blog has changed from “Noah’s Big Battle” to the simple, yet seemingly more accurate “Noah’s War.”