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Happy Thanksgiving!!  I hope today has been a day filled with love and happiness.  We have enjoyed a laid back day with way too much food accompanied by a lot of time together enjoying each other's company.  Just as the day should be - my favorite holiday! On Tuesday I spent half the day at Vanderbilt for my five year check up.  Its a long story that has to do with Vandy's electronic health record transition which caused a bunch of issues with my scans, but I didn't find out until yesterday afternoon what the results were.  I saw Dr Keedy Tuesday morning.  Hard to believe I've been seeing her for nearly 6 years - in January it will be 6 years.  Her nurse, Liz, is like a friend after all this time. As I sat in the "belly of the beast" as I call the Cancer Center check in area surrounded by people affected one way or another by cancer, I felt nothing but lucky.  There are a lot of reasons for that.  But, I couldn't help but feel sympathy f...

Its been a while.  Okay, thats an unfair understatement.  Its been, literally, years since I have written a post.  I was editing the Favorites in Safari today and came across the link to the Blog.  Haven't given it much thought in a long time, but something caused me to click the link today. And here we are.  This is a big week for me, cancer-wise.  I don't have a lot of tests - just a "simple" chest x-ray, but Tuesday morning I see my oncologist, still Dr. Vicki Keedy, for what I hope will be the last "NED" report of the 5 year period following my treatment. My diagnosis was January 5, 2012, with surgery at the end of that month.  I began chemotherapy at the end of March 2012, added radiation to that for all of April and half of May.  Chemo then continued until September 12, 2012.  Five years ago. In the last five years, I have had my port removed, dozens of blood tests, CT scans and MRIs; five PET scans; 2 bone scans; a ton of x-rays...