I recently attended Elton John’s Farewell Tour (yes I bought ligit tickets!). I thoroughly enjoyed him and was pleasantly surprised. Throughout the night he played the inevitable “I’m still standing” and during the second chorus I kid you not, a light from the stage hit me full on in the face and I felt an enormous wave of bliss, peace and contentment, feeling ‘everything will be alright’ (a song btw performed by the cover pianist Nate Sheridan with a fab jazz feel).
I have since seen my oncologist who assures me to trust the process with my upcoming reconstruction surgery and happy with my decision to delay the start of my trial drug Nerlynx. So that rounds out my year of medical appointments (except for a skin check Wednesday for a concerning mole and an overdue smear next week plus a bunch of new referrals I need and a chronic health care plan so I can get some pain mgt appointments organised with a physio for my joints) But other than that it’s a rap!
I am now looking forward to 5 more days of work, 3 weeks of leave, a swim booked with dolphin & seals on NYE and building strength, fitness, health & happiness prior to surgery. To add to my new and improved eating I have finally cracked the drought of lap swimming and completed 15 minutes with ease, totally loosening my shoulders up and giving me that hit of endorphins I so desperately crave to balance my cortisole stress hormone.
Happy days xx
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I was 21 and I was planning a wedding, buying a house and had a job interview for the job of my dreams on my 22nd birthday. You see I was being made redundant and had to find a new job by August. Especially with the new mortgage now. It was April. I worked for CML and my new job was a done deal. All I needed was a medical. And with that, just like that....my life was turned upside down and I was diagnosed with CML, ha ha, I know the irony. My hematologist had a laugh at that too. I had Chronic Myeloid Leukeamia, which was normally reserved for 70 year old men. Quite rare for a young adult to get, so how would they treat it? I underwent two separate trials until finally it was decided my best chance of survival (all be it only 50% chance), would be a MUD BMT (matched unrelated bone marrow transplant), now known as VUD Allograt (volunteer unrelated donor). I was told 21 years ago the chance of finding a match was 1 in 20,000 (and that is everyone was on the bone marrow donor registry). Scary odds. So being the risk taker I am I said "go for it". They found a match and that was my first miracle in this journey. The second miracle was, it worked - new blood type, two different DNA profiles and the miracle of medicine was reborn inside me. The third miracle is my son.
25 years on, I now face a new challenge. Breast Cancer. Certainly not the first person to have cancer, to have invasive ductile cancer, hormone receptive and HER2 +, or to even have a dual diagnosis. But this is not another Webiste about a cancer survivor, this is just my excuse to finally publicly write. Along the way I am hoping I can share some insights I have learnt over the years and at the same time, give you a good belly laugh.
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