Last Update:
Well I figured I finally have this thing beat. I've had my second "clear" PET exam showing no cancer. I've also started back to eating, and just ate three pieces of pizza with my girls. This week I finally gained 1 pound. Seems minor, but after losing 30 pounds gaining is reason to celebrate. I'm only 5'6" - losing 30 pounds when your 5'6" is a bunch. Friends have been making Ethiopian jokes about me. Just turned 40 this past week, and I feel lucky for the first time in a while.
Things learned over the last 7 months:
-I'm very fortunate, there are a lot of people that have it way worse than me.
-I never realized before what was really important in life.
-patience
-this illness has actually seperated my wife and I some (I never would have dreamed that)
-My community is much more compassionate than I thought.
-I have plenty of genuine friends on the CT board!
So thank you to my friends on the CT board. Although we all have different opinions, and occasionaly fire back and forth, a bunch of you have really made me feel better with words of support. I can't explain how nice it makes a person feel when you've been puking all day and feel like crap - but when you open up the computer you see a message in your "in" box.
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