Hope For Holly

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.

The first tests started today. Holly had her PET Scan. Next week is another colonoscopy and then the results of both next Wednesday. So now we wait.

One thing that I found really interesting was that they told her not to get too close to people for about 24 hours. I guess, due to the radioactive isotopes that are used to find tumors, she is pretty hot right now, in a much more literal sense.

While I’ve been hoping for super powers, all she ended up with is a stomachache. Maybe tomorrow morning she will be able to heat coffee by looking at it.