Tom feels, and I quote, "Better than Monday". He got a lot of color back today and though still quite fatigued, he's starting to feel better. Yesterday was an interesting milestone for us – but one I didn’t mention since we were processing the surgery news. Monday was exactly two months from Tom’s original diagnosis. There are very few words to describe the past two months of our life. How can some hours/days seem so incredibly slow, but the two months as a whole feel like a complete blur? It’s as if we are in a weird time vortex. For me, I’m still working full-time so it’s almost as if I picked up another full time job which is why I think life has seemed so fast. For Tom, I think it’s been a mix of being on all the medications, a blur of appointments and a focus on getting through each day that has made time seem so fast. Late last night I read the blog from start to finish – there are posts that I didn’t even remember until I read them again. It’s amazing how our brains work!
All in all, we’ve managed the past two months the best we could. We’ve had some of the best days together and some of the absolute hardest days together. Two months from now will be mid-January and Tom should be on the road to recovery from surgery and – dare I say – cancer free. So as tough as the past two months have been, we know the next two months will yield much brighter days with happy milestones including the holidays with our families (including a Bears/Packers game on Thanksgiving), the end of chemo, surgery, a cancer-free diagnosis and more. On that note, 19 days until chemo is done. More to come…
All in all, we’ve managed the past two months the best we could. We’ve had some of the best days together and some of the absolute hardest days together. Two months from now will be mid-January and Tom should be on the road to recovery from surgery and – dare I say – cancer free. So as tough as the past two months have been, we know the next two months will yield much brighter days with happy milestones including the holidays with our families (including a Bears/Packers game on Thanksgiving), the end of chemo, surgery, a cancer-free diagnosis and more. On that note, 19 days until chemo is done. More to come…