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Two years
Not sure why being cancer-free for two years is so meaningful to me. Maybe it’s just the importance we ascribe to yearly milestones. Or maybe it’s that my CT-scan check-ins move from quarterly to twice-yearly, which means that I have graduated into a lower-risk surveillance status. Regardless, feeling more and more grateful every day that…
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Goodbye to You
Being a cancer survivor is about marking time. Nearly two years since my diagnosis. A year and a half since my surgery. A month until my next scan. Tick-tock, tick-tock. Today’s milestone was finally getting the chemo port extracted from my chest. It was a no-big-deal surgery—wide awake, lots of lidocaine, 40 minutes total in…
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Time is On My Side
One year ago tomorrow, I had surgery to remove the tumor on my pancreas. It seems not that long ago. I remember almost everything, from the sleepless night before, and the post-surgery morphine haze, to the rogue visit with Matt to other hospital floors, and the week of unrelenting day and night visits from nurses…