380 days ago, Holly was diagnosed with Stage III colo-rectal cancer. I am ecstatic to report today that the PT Scan that she had last week showed no traces of cancer in her system.
We are still in a bit of a haze of happiness, so I don’t really know what to write beyond that.
Thank you very much for all of the inspiration, help, support, guidance, caring and everything that everyone from this community have given us throughout this ordeal.
I’ll write more after my head clears a bit. In short, this is just the beginning of another chapter that is our life with cancer. We still have blood tests, PT Scans, colonoscopies and the worry that it could come back.
But like so many other people who have fought through this, we have survived. It was a really, really rough year, but Holly is a fighter and a survivor. I’ve never been so proud of anyone in my life.
I’ve been waiting too long to write that.
The results of this mornings colonoscopy were positive negative. No cancer in the colon.
The hard part is that we want to be excited, but not too much as the results of the PT scan come down tomorrow. This is a good start, though.
I’m not a morning person. If I had my druthers, I’d sleep until 1 or 2 in the afternoon and stay up all night.
So when the alarm went off at 5:30 to get ready to go the surgery center, I had one of those ‘Whoa is me’ moments. I snapped out of it pretty quickly, but it still sucks. Most people my age aren’t waking up to take their wives to the surgery center for the First Annual Colonoscopy.
At the same time, it provided me with a bit of perspective that I always need when I start feeling that way. It could be a whole lot worse.
As I walked back from grabbing coffee this morning, there was an amazing sunrise over San Jose. There was too much urban blight (freeways, light posts, traffic) to grab a decent photo with the camera phone, but the cloud cover was under the mountain tops and the sun came through the splits in the mountains and provided a really pretty backdrop to an odd morning.
It is weird to be blogging while Holly is in surgery. Everyone is sure that things are clear. That this is routine. Just making sure. But that is what they said last time we were here and we all know how that ended.
So we wait. I should get results on the scope in about 30 minutes. We get the results of the PT scan tomorrow afternoon. Like our friend Beth at YouTumor said, it isn’t the tests that we fear, it is the results.
So the waiting game is on. I hope that the surgeon is more of a morning person than I am.
5 Things I’m Happy About:
Best surgeon in the area working on my wife
Good insurance covers an expensive operation for $60
Good job provides good insurance
Kids are with grandpa having an awesome time
It is February and it has been in the 70’s and sunny the past week and a half
P.S. I just realized that my writing is pretty terrible until after lunch.