I’M DONE!!!

Well, today I wrapped up my last day of chemo. I am exhausted but incredibly relieved that I made it through. I was a little nervous that we weren’t going to get the chemo in today since I was quite bloated, but I went to my marvelous acupuncturist last night and walked on the treadmill both last night and this morning and that seemed to do the trick! I released enough fluid to enable me to get in the full treatment today. I was thrilled. But I am swimming in toxins right now.

I have so much that I want to write about my healing journey over the past several weeks, but for right now, I just need to go and rest. This has been a long road. I am now on my own to make sure that I keep my body in a condition where cancer does not want to reside. This will be done through my diet, my mind, my herbal supplements and my eastern medicine treatments.

The next step on the western medical front is to get a baseline CT scan on March 29 (they said that they want to see what the heck the chemo did to my insides over the past few months). I will then have an appointment with Dr. Fisher to go over my plan, which will most likely involve blood tests every few months with follow up CT scans every 6 months.

I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I am proud to say that this time I have jumped into my healing in a much more profound way than I did two years ago. I believe that this effort will be the one that will give me the greatest likelihood to have a long life.

Thank you all for your incredible support over the last several months. Your love, prayers and positive thoughts, along with a ton of delicious meals, mean more to me and my family than I can put into words. This has been a long haul (and it’s not over!) but I made it through a very significant portion of my treatment. And I did it with your help.

As I said goodbye to the incredible nurses at Stanford today, I literally cried. They are truly some of the most amazing individuals that I’ve ever met. Their kindness paired with their exceptional competence has made this whole experience so much better than it could have been. I feel fortunate that I live in a country that enabled me to have such fine health care. I guess that I’m just feeling a lot of gratitude today and I wanted to share it with all of you.

I am planning to celebrate over the weekend my new lease on life. I will celebrate the many years I will have ahead with my wonderful daughters (who made cupcakes and cards for all of the nurses today – so precious) and fabulous friends and family.

I hope you all have a phenomenal weekend filled with joy and love.