Things I'll definitely be doing this week: grading papers, shopping for groceries, playing with my granddaughter, making pumpkin cheesecake, and serving a turkey and all the Thanksgiving trimmings for family and friends. Plus dishes--someone has to wash the dishes. Maybe take in a local Christmas parade. And I predict some napping.
Things I won't be doing this week for the first time since 2009: driving around in circles at the hospital's parking garage, spending time in medical waiting rooms, getting poked with needles, having vials of blood rudely removed from my body, drinking horrible gluey "smoothies," trying to lie still with a needle in my arm and my arms over my head while listening to commands issued by a whirring machine with horrible bedside manner, and then tensely awaiting test results.
That's right: six years after my final round of chemotherapy, I'm free of the need for medical monitoring.
I don't know about anyone else, but that's enough to make me thankful.
2 comments:
That's fabulous news! I'm so happy for you, Bev!
I'm thankful too! Yay!
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