Last Thursday I had my follow-up appointment with the surgeon. Great news for all of us: I am cancer free. Such relief comes from those words!!! Instead of "You have cancer," it is, "You are cancer free."
Thursday was a chilly, sunny spring day and I tasted freedom from cancer overload, carried since last September. New beginnings. Along with the spring flowers and budding trees, I will bloom again.
Still, there is more to be done. Complete freedom does not surround me until after a month of radiation and continued infusions every three weeks into November. I have my consult appointment with the radiologist on May 24th. That is the day I learn of my radiation plan. How exciting!
The surgeon tells me I have the worst behind me (chemotherapy and surgery). She says radiation will be a piece of cake. Hmm. I know I am dreading the radiation even more than the other two, because of family history with radiation. My grandmother and mother both had radiation and it was bad. Today things are different, I am told, so I can relax and not worry.
You will be happy to know my energy is returning. Woot! Woot! I have completed several quilts in the past week or so. I am riding my bike and mowing the lawn. I've been baking and cooking again, much to my husband's delight. And yesterday we opened camp at the Skyline Campground out near Attica, NY. Feels so good to be back there.
Interestingly, the clinic presented me with three free summer caps at today's infusion. The nurses said I will like my hair again but not until November. November!!! Sigh. Patience is possible actually, knowing that I am cancer free. God has been good to me...to us! We have pulled together and I am succeeding because you love me. Thank you. Thank you. It really does take a whole year, and we are so good together. I am so blessed, and very grateful.
Signing out as the struggling hair farmer, The quilting cancer girl
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