This blog stuff is great! I look forward to filling it with details of my experiance with breast cancer and lymphedema. As I started to write my first submission I was compelled to go back to the beginning. It is the right time for me to release the passed year of my life and find the deeper healing I still need.
Today I am a survivor! Dr. Johnson said that when I had my last day of radiation I should consider myself healed. If that is the measure then I am healed!! My radiation ended on Thursday and the 4 nurses that treated me daily for 6 weeks had a ceremony. They all gathered around me, read a poem about the battle we just fought and then I rang a bell three times to call an end to my journey in treatment. I cried tears of I don't know what. But they were just the right kind for that moment.
Since then I have been struggling to get back to normal. I now take tamoxifin as the third assault on the cancer. Like radiation this will help my chances of not getting breast cancer again. It upsets my stomache though and I am hoping I get used to it. It is in these first days of life again, I have realized I have a lot to say.
So...back to the begining of this posting. I will be keeping a journal of sorts on this blog and invite you to check it out if you desire. It became obvious as I started to write my first installment today that I had to start at the begining. It is quite a story.
Today I am a survivor! Dr. Johnson said that when I had my last day of radiation I should consider myself healed. If that is the measure then I am healed!! My radiation ended on Thursday and the 4 nurses that treated me daily for 6 weeks had a ceremony. They all gathered around me, read a poem about the battle we just fought and then I rang a bell three times to call an end to my journey in treatment. I cried tears of I don't know what. But they were just the right kind for that moment.
Since then I have been struggling to get back to normal. I now take tamoxifin as the third assault on the cancer. Like radiation this will help my chances of not getting breast cancer again. It upsets my stomache though and I am hoping I get used to it. It is in these first days of life again, I have realized I have a lot to say.
So...back to the begining of this posting. I will be keeping a journal of sorts on this blog and invite you to check it out if you desire. It became obvious as I started to write my first installment today that I had to start at the begining. It is quite a story.
posted by Kathleen Lighty at 10:47 PM
1 Comments:
hi - i found your blog through camilla engmans blog - congratulations!!! its all uphill from here! im 3.5 years out from treatments for bc and ive been on tamoxifen in that time and it does get easier - sometimes i actually take it while eating some yogurt in the morning which seems to help - but its like nothing now, just a part of the morning routine.
your pictures are beautiful!! *hugs*
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