Deb Wesloh

“Would you like for me to play you a few songs?” I ask as I enter a patient’s room at Northeast Methodist Hospital. A lady lying on the bed wrapped...

I recently had my quarterly visit to my oncologist. These visits are always a bit nerve-wracking with multiple cancers, including blood cancer. I often feel like I’m playing the slots...

We’ve lived in our house for over twenty years, which is longer than I’ve ever lived anywhere. I often wonder what stories would the walls of our house share if...

I saw several suspenseful disaster movies back-to-back when I was young. Some of these included The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Earthquake. These movies gave me nightmares for months...

I attended a couple of cancer events recently. First was the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night. The second was a cancer storytelling performance called Cancer Chronicles put on...

As I attempted to stay in step and move my hips to the Latin beat, I remembered why running was always my exercise of choice. I never had much coordination...

Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places. You’re off and away…Dr. Seuss "Wow! I’m going to New York City to take part in a blood cancer storytelling...

Okay, I admit it, I’ve used my cancer card. For those not familiar with the term, it means using a cancer diagnosis as an excuse to get out of something...

As we watched the sun dip low in the sky over Lake Bemidji that early August evening, we thought how small our world really is. Ramae and I are both...

Everything happens for a reasonEven if you don’t know whySometimes all you can do is laughOtherwise, you’d cry...   Last year I wrote a song called Sometimes All You Can...

My heart feels like it’s going to beat out of my chest, as sweat drips into my eyes. My breath is laboring as I head down the last hill and...

“You sure know how to make lemonade,” a friend commented to me the other day. Now, I guarantee she wasn’t talking about the lemonade you drink, as my lemonade-making process...

I’ve had a love–hate relationship with social media throughout the years. With social media, I was a late bloomer. I remember all my friends and even my mother-in-law singing the...

When I was in my college chemistry class many years ago, I learned about a scientific term called cause and effect. Its definition is the relationship between two things when...

I smile as I make my way into the room at the Brooke Army Medical Center Soldier Recovery Unit. Every chair for the music group has a masked-faced military member...

When I think of my difficult cancer journey, a Bible verse from Hebrews 12:1 comes to mind. Keep running the race set before you with endurance. I was a runner...

When I was growing up, I remember my mom was quite obsessed with her weight. It was interesting because she probably weighed 115 pounds soaking wet. Still, every morning she...

Wow! It’s been five years since my dial cancer diagnoses. The first was a blood cancer called polycythemia vera (PV). Invasive ductal carcinoma or breast cancer followed a couple of...

One of the very first things I experienced during Army basic training was the phrase hurry up and wait. The drill sergeants were constantly yelling at us to move quickly...

The commercial is familiar to us all - the motorized fuzzy pink bunny toy with flip-flops and sunglasses beating a bass drum with the Energizer Battery logo in the center...