One Tick At A Time

My Walk In Faith Through Cancer

De: Janell Morefield, David Morefield

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

"The most important thing in any crisis is not the size of the problem. It is the size of the God you bring to it." — Janell Morefield

When a respected nurse anesthetist hears the words "gastric lymphoma," everything changes. Sue Janell Gates Morefield had spent thirty years managing other people's crises—administering anesthesia in operating rooms, caring for vulnerable patients, standing steady when others faltered. But November 30, 1989 wasn't about managing someone else's emergency. It was her life, her children, her future hanging in the balance.

This is not a story about conquering cancer through willpower alone. This is a story about a woman whose faith was tested by fire—and held.

Janell's journey through chemotherapy, radiation, and despair didn't follow the familiar triumphant narrative. It included hospital admissions, hair loss, moments of profound weakness, and a year of waiting—the hardest task for someone who had always been the one taking action. But woven through every chapter is something deeper: a belief that God was present in the darkness, and that the suffering itself was being transformed into something purposeful.

One Tick at a Time captures Janell's own writings from her 35-year cancer survival—journals, reflections, and hard-won wisdom about faith, prayer, community, and what it means to persevere. She writes about the deacons who laid hands on her and prayed. About friends who organized 130 meals over eight months. About the power of humor when you have nothing left but laughter. About the specific prayers that got answered, and the faith that held when the answers didn't come the way she expected.

Most importantly, Janell writes for the cancer patients who may only have five to ten minutes of energy to read at a time. She breaks her story into digestible chapters—each one standing alone, each one offering something: hope, theology, practical wisdom, the witness of someone who has walked this path and emerged not unchanged, but transformed.

Her sons Bradley and David watched their mother refuse to become small under pressure. Her grandson Caleb cared for her during her final days, carrying forward the legacy of faithfulness she had modeled his entire life. Her friends witnessed the nurse in her never stopping—even in the midst of her own suffering, she was still pointing people toward healing, toward God, toward hope.

Thirty-five bonus years. Thousands of conversations. A faith that never wavered. A life lived one tick at a time.

For anyone facing cancer, anyone supporting someone with cancer, anyone struggling to understand how God shows up in suffering—this is a book written by someone who knows. It's written by Janell Morefield, in her voice, with her wisdom, and with her unwavering conviction that we are never, ever alone.

"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." — Psalm 37:25