Oncology Phone Call 15/09/22 🎂 A few days late for this post as I’ve been a busy bee enjoying my birthday! Let’s pretend it’s still the 15th ... So 365 days ago I was being pumped full of chemo and giving away all my birthday cake to the nurses in the hospital. This year I was living. Fully living and loving life. Absolutely spoilt and smiling for the entire day. I remember feeling so down last year, having a birthday dictated by cancer and this year couldn’t have been more different. Cancer did creep in a little this year though, a phone call with my oncologist. I haven’t spoken to her for months so it was good to catch up quickly. Went though the usual, how do I feel, any long term effects of chemo etc and then worked out I have TWO Phesgo injections left. Meaning October will be THE END of all cancer treatment for me. Yikes the end is near. We discussed scans as I’ve been feeling like I need one for my mental heath but she pointed out this might help for 15 minutes and then I’ll just go back to being anxious again. So I’ve decided to just live. I need to learn that this feeling won’t ever go away but it will get easier and unless there’s an ache, pain or change then a scan won’t ease my anxiety long term. You can’t have daily scans so let’s just do life the way I know best, with a smile, laughing daily and a few cocktails thrown in for good measure!! Waiting for the dates to come through for my final treatments and then I’ll be able to close the cancer chapter, open a fresh new page in the book and properly celebrate the start of life 2.0!!