Today, we pack up our Auckland hospital apartment hermitage (boy have we seen a lot of these rooms), and finally return HOME. <3
In the photo, the picture to the right was taken on September 20th, when I got my first CT Scan and saw for myself the crazy amount of cancer in my body. The picture on the left was taken 5 minutes ago, and is my happy self having just put the last sticker on my Countdown Calendar.
The calendar covers the period of chemotherapy, and each of those bright orange stickers represents 24 hours of challenges. 1/3 of that time was what I would call pure survival, 1/3 was all over the place and 1/3 was the good times we managed to have despite it all.
I have spent a LOT of time just staring at this piece of paper with dots on it, willing it to populate faster.
I will have a final PET CT scan on 22 March that will give us the verdict of cancer-free or not, however my doc is very confidant in positive results, and.. I feel good!!
There are many many little things yet to deal with before I can say I'm 'normal' again, however given the perspective of the past 6 months, these things which would in other times feel big, are barely worth even thinking about.
I'll say it for the last time - I could NOT have done this without YOU. Thank you.
A shower of love to you all!
