One Year

Today marks the one year anniversary of my original diagnosis. Rectal cancer, Stage 3.

I went back to the beginning of this blog and was reading about all the things I was feeling at that time. One post in particular stood out to me - you can read that one here.

I have another week to go until my last treatment. From there it will be scans, one more colonoscopy to check for anything else still floating around, and then it's periodic check-ups to see how things are.

I hope you will take the time to read the old post above because it's exactly true to the way I feel about all of you ... in the now.

One thing I have learned, one gift I have received through this is that life really is an illusion. It's all about our perceptions and it's all about what we do with each moment. I knew it before, intellectually, but I really know it now.

In fact, I know it so well that I feel like a chubby old monk, sitting in orange robes upon a rock, laughing out loud at our perception of reality. The laughter gives me great joy and peace. That is a good feeling.

My heartfelt love to all, and a gratitude so deep that words cannot adequately express it.

You are all so special to me, and I thank you for sharing this journey with me. I could not have done it without you, and I realize more than anything else that we really are all connected, and that's good to know.

All my love and gratitude, Tanya