It has taken all my strength and more to navigate my way back to the shore. But somewhat miraculously, I have been tossed back, emerging through a heaving, tumultuous tsunami of loss, grief, pain, despair and fear.
I am raw, shattered and completely exhausted. But no matter how broken I feel right now, I am still here.
The cancer that silently invaded my body and stealthily stole away my life piece-by-piece is now gone. Blasted away by a brutal regime of chemotherapy coupled with life giving surgery.
Daily radiotherapy will be the final step in a few weeks time to mop up anything lurking unseen below the surface.
Then I will breathe again, begin to heal and start over…….