9/26/2024
Every day we choose. We choose how we will face the day. We choose how we will respond to circumstances we are confronted with. How we will respond to the motorist that clearly didn’t take the lane closed ahead sign seriously and now wants someone to let him or her in ahead of everyone who managed to merge earlier. Every day we have the ability to choose to be a generally positive person or we can choose to foster a more negative disposition. Generally, I believe most people strive to live life from a positive outlook. Most people see the glass as half full and go about life with a joyful attitude. This isn’t to say there aren’t times when circumstances get the best of us, and we can get off track. There are many events that can affect our ability to choose joy. Loss of a loved one. Loss of a job. Drastic changes in health or financial situation. These are serious and certainly extreme events that have the potential to crush the joy within us. So, very often we must choose how we respond to such events.
Throughout this journey, beginning on April 5th, it was important to me to remain positive. I made it a conscious choice. There were times when it wasn’t easy. The days after chemo treatments could be rough. The days leading up to another chemo treatment were tough mentally and emotionally as I summoned the strength to prepare my body for the treatment and aftereffects. Quite literally, it was a matter of putting one foot in front of the other and moving forward. And always present in my thoughts was the very real, very possible reality that my body would not respond to treatment and things could get worse. And that is when it was so important to me to have the amazing support system surrounding and supporting me. Every step of the way so many people, from my family by blood, my BG FCC family, people at work, people I golf with, checking on me, offering to take me to appointments, bring me food, mow my lawn, pray with me, offering to help in whatever way I needed. I am truly blessed and deeply loved. And I can’t thank you all enough.
However, today I am going to end this blog entry on a negative note. On Tuesday, September 17 I received a call from my Oncologist, Dr. Letzer. He called to give me preliminary results regarding the biopsy done on the previous week. He said he didn’t like to give preliminary results because not all the tests were back yet and things can change but so far, all the test from the biopsy had come back negative. That’s right negative. That call was early Tuesday morning, and they were just preliminary results, the rest of the test results could come later that afternoon or early Wednesday morning. Later Tuesday night Dr. Letzer called back with news on the rest of the results. All test results came back negative. The biopsy showed no indication of cancer. Every now and then being negative is a cause for celebration!
Stay positive everyone,
You are loved
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