So it was kind of strange for me that very quickly into a party I found myself in conversation with a breast cancer survivor who had recently completed a mastectomy and reconstruction but mainly wanted to talk about fear.
She had been given the option of chemo or not and choose not to have chemo. I think she was pretty happy with that decision but it was starting to leak into the fear zone.
Fear it was going to come back.
Tomorrow I go get a blood panel done that includes a check for a tumor marker. It's a 100% marker, but is typically included in well checks for people like me.
Then in January I will have a CT scan of my torso since sarcoma generally goes to the lungs next and that is where breast cancer may come back ( two birds - one stone).
With all this checking up, I should be able to put fear on hold and just wait for the results - the data.
I am more interested in re-establishing my confident athletic self. I am not training like Rocky though. I could find plenty to criticise my lazy self about, in fact.
I really need to get busy. Maybe pull out the Ipod and start doing sit-ups, too.
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I am one of the few people in the world who have had two primary cancers, bone cancer and breast cancer, at the same time. I am also the rare 60+ woman with bone cancer. I have survived both since August 2008.
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