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Faith
One of the biggest struggles during this cancer ordeal has been my relationship with faith. Not faith in a higher power. But faith in my doctors. It’s been especially challenging since my surgery nine months ago. I am in “surveillance” mode now. Every three months, I get a CT scan that looks for visual evidence…
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Survivor
We had a work retreat recently, and one of the activities involved writing ten characteristics of yourself on ten stickers and tacking them to the front of your shirt. Then we mingled with colleagues, discussed each other’s attributes, removed a couple of stickers with each conversation, and mingled more until we were down to one…
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Walking on Sunshine
Those close to me know that I’m not given to excitement. Happy, yes. Content, of course. Blissful, I can do that. But today, I was smiling ear-to-ear after meeting with my oncologist. As I mentioned in the last post, I came out of surgery with a clean pathology report. But I never really understood what…