03.04.08

Today is the day that I will go on the offensive, for the first time since surgery, in my fight against this stupid cancer. I'm a competitive person and I turned this journey into a competition a long time ago. Today is my turn to be aggressive. I'm SO ready! I know that the next couple weeks are going to be a bit of a drag, but that's okay. I know that every second of worry, every sick moment, and every minute of fatigue will put me a second, a moment, and a minute closer to full recovery.



There is a paragraph in the book, "It's Not About the Bike" by Lance Armstrong that has came to be my "light at the end of the tunnel", I read it everyday. It reads:



.....What you learn in cancer surviorship is that after all the shouting is done, after the desperation and crisis is over, after you have accepted the fact of your illness and celebrated the return of your health, the old routines and habits, like shaving in the morning with a purpose, a job to go to, a wife to love and children to raise, these are the threads that tie your days together and that give them the pattern deserving of the term " a life". ............



I'm ready to return to my normal "life" and it starts today. My coworkers are all boarding planes tommorow in the cities where they live to go to a company wide event in Florida. I hope this is the last work function that I miss.



We're off to take the kids to my parents house and then II'S ON.


Two thumbs up!