The Home Stretch
Another semester is over and I am busy preparing for finals now. It feels much different than the end of last semester. When I was reviewing my notes in preparation for finals last semester, I didn’t even remember covering certain subjects. I’m sure it was a combination of the chemo and of having so much going on during the semester. This time it feels like the end of the semester normally does…I remember most of what we talked about, it’s just a matter of synthesizing it all into an outline that makes sense. I hope that the exams themselves will be easier for me than they were last semester, as well.
The beginning of this month marked six months since my last chemo treatment. For a long time, I found myself telling people, when it came up in conversation, that I had finished chemo on November 1st. Now, when it comes up, I tell people that my last treatment was six months ago. It is a subtle but interesting mental shift…kind of like when you move from telling people your child’s age in months to her age in years. In just a few days, I will be able be able to tell people that I have been cancer-free for one year. (I am counting from the day I had the lumpectomy since that is the day that it was actually removed.) In some ways it feels as if it has been years and years since I had cancer, and at the same time it seems all too recent.
I will be celebrating Mother’s Day this year by running in this race with my family and some friends of ours. I hope to make it our new family Mother’s Day tradition.
Comments
Hi, Kim! I'm glad to hear that things are going well, and that you're in the academic home-stretch. I've no doubt that you'll do brilliantly in your exams-- but best of luck to you, all the same!
Six months!! Way to go!! I can't believe how the time has just flown by... And I, too, look forward to your 1 Year Free mark. What shall we do to celebrate??
I'll be thinking of you on Mother's Day, and marvelling at how far you've come. Run like the wind, now!!
xoxo CGF
Posted by: candygirlflies | May 7, 2008 08:57 PM
Hey, good for you for running in that race!! Way to go!
Posted by: Judy | May 7, 2008 10:28 PM
Congratulations!
Three years for me in just 2 days, May 10!
Posted by: Alison | May 8, 2008 02:28 PM
hi, i came by way of hotfessional. i read her on a pretty regular basis.
congratulations on the home stretch! like the hair, it looks nice.
my husband's grandmother had cancer when she was already in her 70s. which was really hard bc she took care of her majorly diabetic and nearly blind husband.
when it rains it pours.
she is past her five year mark and doing well. Thank God.
I wish you well. I don't know what else to say other than man you are really living it, family, law school and all. I admire your strength. I have a mall job part-time to get sustenance and the rudeness of the employees alone leaves me with little energy. I am praying for your good health and success.
Posted by: mn | May 10, 2008 11:45 PM