Love the Road You're On

Heard a car commercial the other day. Don't even know what kind of car. Doesn't matter. The gist of the commercial was "Love the road you're on." (Sorry to interject so many commercials. Guess it must have something to do with my advertising background.) Anyway, I couldn't help but think about what great advice that is for life. All of us find ourselves on roads we would prefer to not be on from time to time. But the only way to move through that portion of our life is to embrace it and move forward. So, that is what I am trying to do and you know what? I got some good news for the first time in a long time.

We finally got a call with the results of the pathology report on my thyroid. The tumor was benign. That's right. After all this, it was benign. But they had no way of knowing that without removing it and I'm fine with that. I just have to heal (kind of look like I tangled with Jack the Ripper right now) and get my meds figured out and then move on. I can live without a thyroid and I can definitely live without a thyroid cancer.

I love the road I'm on right now because for the first time in a long time, it appears to be straightening. No other treatments are going to interfere with the aggressive treatment of the breast cancer right now. I don't believe that I will even need to do the radioactive iodine treatment for my thyroid but won't know that for sure until I see the surgeon again on Thursday. If I don't have that, they shouldn't have to separate the chemo drugs I have been taking into separate treatments. And this is the road that will lead to my complete healing so what's not to love.

I didn't talk about it much, but after the thyroid cancer diagnosis, I forced myself to face the fact that maybe, just maybe, I wasn't going to make it through this after all. But tonight I feel absolutely euphoric. I am going to make it. And, I have to close my eyes to do it, but I can glimpse that light. See it?

Later.