Springtime Sunshine

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Springtime Sunshine has arrived!!  I watched as March came in like a lion, and throughout the month it was up and down with winter-spring weather that played havoc on my mental and physical recovery.  March 3rd marked six month since having my hysterecomy and doing cancer treatments.  Wow, when you are going through it, you take it one obstacle at a time, everything is scheduled.  A lot was packed into a short timeframe.  Now done that part for my recovery, the rest of me needs to catch up.  I sat a lot of days in my comfy chair under my blankie letting the winter sunshine come through the living room window to warm me and kick in the healing process.  Some of those days I looked out at the snow and felt defeated, and wondered how do I transition from the cancer patient to the cancer survivor.  I have learned that just because I have finished my treatments, the return to "normal" life does not happen immediately.  It takes time and effort to rebuild my strength with exercise, get over cancer-related fatigue with rest and nutrition, cope with chemo brain and neuropathy, and figure out what menopause looks like for me.  It is all in the process of building my new "normal" life.  

April 17th marked my second month cancer free, according to the survivorship definition.  Being a bit of a Royal watcher, it also was the funeral of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away April 9th.  Wow, he lived to a couple months short of being 100 years old.  A long life well lived... This set me off on many hours of retracing the royal family lineage again because I had forgot how all the royal families lines are inter-connected in Europe.  Of course, add in all the entertainment news coverage on Harry and Meghan fall out aftermath of the Oprah interview speculation leading up to the funeral.  I was so hyped up on royal news that I forgot about myself.  That is a good thing to get out of my head for a while, and forget about the ongoing covid pandemic and Ontario Stay-at-home orders.

Now I am getting geared up for more tests the first week of May, and I will find out the results at my first checkup in Sudbury on May 20th.  I am hoping for a clean bill of health.  It is the true measure that the cancer treatments worked and I am cancer free.  That will be a good day!!

While I pen out this post, April is leaving like a lion with -1c and snow showers.  Just yesterday it was 20c and time on the deck looking up summer cocktail recipes.  Spring leading into the hot days of summer... lots of good stuff ahead now that I have the crappy stuff behind me.

Cheers!!