Hi everyone! I have a positive update!
So, on Monday I had my interim (after 2 rounds of chemo) PET scan…and it came back clear!! Almost all of the cancer is GONE 🥹 I have two more months of chemo to go through, but it looks like I will be done everything (hopefully) by the beginning of June. My birthday is in less than a week and this is the best gift I could have gotten!
It’s almost exactly three months since I was diagnosed, which has felt like the longest three months ever. Especially coming after four months of watching it slowly take over my body and having no idea what it was. I think I spent most of the last three months asleep, and now I feel like I need to do something productive the next two months to make up for it 😂 We’ll ignore the fact that my body healing was productive enough.
On another positive note, I had to run around this morning to get my license renewed and get a few other interim tests done at the hospital, and it was the first time I felt comfortable/confident enough to not cover my baldness. I got a lot of stares but also a lot of very sweet compliments. One nurse passed me in the hall and yelled out “you ROCK that head, girl!” and I almost burst into tears. I get overwhelmed very easily 😅
Anyway, all this to say again, thank you for everyone who has reached out to me and shared kind words or even just a check in to see how I’m doing. Especially @starfleetteddybear @avoskorm and everyone from the Fade discord (there are so many of you!). Seriously, you don’t know how much you all mean to me 💖 And you also know I ramble and get over emotional so I won’t even get started lol.
Wanted to share two photos just for the hell of it. The first is from the notes of my pulmonary function test today and it made me giggle. I think this is the equivalent of “a pleasure to have in class” for adults 😂 Did I get an “A” in breathing?? And the second is just my bald head in the waiting room. I have super bad steroid flush today so luckily the mask covered that part. Isn’t it funny how I kept my eyebrows (they only thinned) and eyelashes? Lost everything else. I hope my hair grows back curly 🫣
