Chemo, a second time [View all]

I wrote in January that my serous endometrial carcinoma had metastasized to my lungs. I chose to hold off before getting treatment, partly just to enjoy life a little while and partly to allow the tumors to grow in order to get a substantial biopsy.

That all happened, and last Thursday was my second round of chemo this time through. Thus I've lost my hair again, soon to lose eyelashes (the worst insult!), but otherwise feeling okay.

I realize at this stage, it's only a matter of extending time, knowing the end is inevitable. I'd like to think I'm invincible, but I'm not. I'm trying to enjoy the time I have with my miraculous daughter and extra-miraculous granddaughter, and I'm writing my "memoir" bit by bit with help from one of my sisters.

I so miss being young and vital, loaded with energy, dancing hours a day and living with reckless abandon! But as my Mom used to say, we must take life as it comes.

Thanks again for this space to write about it.