January 27, 2010
A New Cancer Sister
Last week when Portland Firefly had her lab work done, she had the opportunity to visit with another woman in the waiting room at the Cancer center. She seemed somehow familiar to me, but I just thought that it was because she had such a warm friendly smile and approachable outgoing attitude. We had a nice visit before I was taken back to the lab to have my blood drawn. As I was leaving the inner offices she was still in the waiting room but this time she was speaking to a woman whom I recognized as facilitating the Chemotherapy class that I took last March when I was first diagnosed with Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma.
Seeing the two of them together made something click in my ‘chemo-fogged-out’ brain and I realized why she seemed so familiar to me. The two of us were the only people in the chemotherapy class ten months ago. We had begun our cancer journeys together and here we both were ~ still alive 10 months later. She has a different cancer than mine, but hers is also extremely rare (although mine is rarer!). She is also on the downside with her Chemotherapy; she only has six more weeks of chemo and then she will be done. Her cancer will most probably be in remission 7 weeks from now! What wonderful news for her and I rejoice with her in that good news!
We felt a bond with each other and since we do not live too far from each other, I am sure that we will “do lunch” sometime or a movie or just get together to visit.
jj said,
January 27, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Praise the Lord for each other. Thank you Lord for reuniting these two souls.