It's celebration time, I am officially in Complete Remission! The cancer has gone away and it is all over. The pink champagne can be opened, hooray!
At the beginning of the week I got my CT scan results back and my haematologist gave me the good news. I didn’t know what to say when he told me, I was in shock. It still hasn’t sunk yet, I am guessing it will take a while.
I don’t get the all clear for five years as it could come back and that usually happens in the first two years, but knowing it has gone away for now is brilliant news.
The next step is having my operation to have the line removed. That should happen over the next couple of weeks. Some people just sit there and only have the area frozen to have the line taken out but there is no way I am doing that. You wouldn’t even get the needle near me to numb my chest and then there is no way I am been awake to see them operating on my chest. I’ll stick to the gas I had when I had my other two operations.
Hopefully as well this will be the last time I do the walk of doom. The walk of doom as I call it is when you have to walk from your room up to the room where they put you to sleep before you go into theatre. It’s awful, my stomach does summersaults and I feel sick. It doesn’t help you have to wear one of those lovely looking robes and white knee high socks, making you look ever so attractive.
Now I have been told I am in remission I don’t have to see my haematologist till November for blood test and check up, but he said he is confident everything will still be good. I will have to have a needle then because I won’t have my line in, so I will be calling on my best friend the emla cream to try and numb the pain.
I am definitely going to miss seeing Anita and Diana and everyone else at Little Aston every week. It won’t be the same waking up on a Friday and not having to spend the day there, but they won’t be able to get rid of me that easily. I shall be popping in for lots of cuppa’s and a good old chat. I just can’t believe how quick the last six months have gone and now it is all over.
