This will be my final entry into this Blog.
I will give people a chance to respond if they wish and then I will lock it and start a new Blog and Chapter in my life.
I'm doing this because I have moved on. I was diagnosed with Cancer in June 2016 and this Blog has served me well to express my thoughts and fears but also, and so importantly, to keep in contact with all of you - people who are important to me in my life.
Thank You. You have sustained me during some very dark times.
After my chemoradation was over I felt as if I was in remission, it was short lived. After my surgery I now feel that my cancer has gone. Effectively it has - there is no evidence of it and even if there were, there is no treatment option for me. So this Chapter is closed.
Looking back over the last 10 months is interesting in how I have grown as a person. I do feel that I have discovered aspects of me that I cherish and that I am proud of. I have no regrets.
I have faced deep rooted fears and I have overcome them. Fear hates the light, as in the light it changes to courage.
Recently I was reading a Blog by Roberta Gately in Huffington Post about her fight. Her final paragraph touched me as it so reflects my feelings.
I reproduce it here:
"Cancer may have stolen a year of my life, but it gave me so much more, a life sentence rather than a death sentence, and an appreciation of all that is beautiful in life. I've learned the hardest lesson there is - how to live like I'm dying. And while I'm now in remission, the lessons I've learned will stay with me forever, and I wish for all of you - a life filled with endless beauty and endless possibilities. Without the diagnosis of course."
Roberta Gately
Cindy Macardle
11 April 2017
