One year out of treatment and feeling fine!
Well, HELLO there! I keep saying that I haven't written in "a while." A while ended up being more than a year! I finished chemo in May 2012, radiation the following July, and my body and mind have been gradually healing ever since. I'm not sure if I'm 100% yet, but I really feel like my brain and personality are as close to human as I've been in a long time. I'm surprised how long it took for the chemical and physical damage to diminish. One or two months after chemo, I thought I was feeling better. I WAS better compared to a few weeks before! But, a year out, I'm still learning about how bad it was. I compare it to the inversion that we're so familiar with in the Salt Lake Valley. When you're in the thick of it, downtown, you can't tell that there are particulates in the air because you can see the buildings across the street just fine. But the farther you get away from the cloud of nasty air, the higher you get u...