Fridays have always been my favorite day of the week…. This coming Friday is even more special. It feels like a ‘rebirth-day’ or that feeling you had as a kid when the doors to the playground for recess have just burst open to the sunny, warm playground. The protocol for chemo-therapy treatment was a cycle of 2 Fridays in a row of chemo and then the third Friday was my “Chemo-Free Friday” which was approximately one Friday a month. My last chemo treatment was Friday November 10, 2017 so now I am free of cisplatin, gemcitabine, IV steroids, anti-nausea meds, Neulasta and Nupagen shots!

Thanksgiving is coinciding with this page turning in my life’s journey. Gratitude is oozing out of every pore in my body for: a clear CT scan last week, more energy, sleeping well, not to mention Fridays belong to me and no longer to MSK now, just to name a few things for which I am grateful.  Family and friends are a huge part of my gratitude list. I am rich with caring and loving people in my life. Nearly each day throughout my treatment I received a phone call, a visitor, a card, a text message or an email.

People are excellent medicine in tough times. There truly are angels among us and I have seen the light of the divine in the eyes of many people. There are those that are not aware they have given me a dose of strength and I have come to realize, there are those that sent me a dose of strength I was unaware of until later.  Bless them all, for they have brought me great comfort, strength and good cheer.

I am feeling this overwhelming sense of lightness, oneness with humanity and peace in my heart. I feel as if I am looking at my life from the outside rather than constantly looking  inward wondering how in the hell I got such a rare dangerous cancer. I focused on visualizing the good angels fighting the cancer devils.

So, this Thanksgiving weekend I am celebrating the beginning of All Chemo-Free Fridays. I am preparing to put those CT scans and MRIs on my calendar every 2 – 3 months, seeing my oncologist every 6 weeks and doing something I love each day whilst I take good care of my body, mind, soul with the continued support of my angels here on our beautiful mother earth.

Thank you all for being there on this Cancer Camino with me.