The Celebration isn’t just the Season

Happy Christmas Eve!  I cannot believe that Christmas is happening tomorrow.  I have had a crazy few weeks since I have last blogged.  By far, the biggest news is that I had my last chemo on Wednesday of last week (December 14).  Now , chemo has not been a walk through the park, that is for sure…..and it really seemed that each infusion was taking more and more to recover from….but I made it, no more chemo in the foreseeable future and that is fabulous!

Now I will still go in to UCSD every week, I am still in the clinical trial, and I am of the firm belief that I am getting the miracle drug, that’s right, no placebo for me.  This will continue until things start looking in need of adjustment…that is, when my disease progresses, ie. tumors grow.  I could be in this study for the next few months or the next few years, there is no way of knowing.

So, as I celebrate this Holiday Season with family and friends, there may be just a little more joy and love, because I am one lucky lady to be here ringing in the New Year ……and you know I may be a little over the top…….but it is all good, because for me the celebration isn’t just the season, it’s the fact that here I am, breathing in and out, making the most of a really crazy medical mayhem for the last five months and striding forward, to see what may wait for me around the corner.  And, I could not have done it without all of you!