Good Day

I blog too much okay. I can't help it, shoot me, I just like it to much. I'm a blog addict okay.

Today I got the best news in the world, I am on my way to recovery. News that has not, and will not sink in for a very long time. 44 days ago I was lying in my bed with Rose and Iona after..hold on...I wasn't in my bed with Rose and Iona. I think Iona went home (sick of my moaning most likely) and Rose was kicked to the kerb and told to sleep on the dreaded camp bed. After a long, long day of crying and this indescribable feeling of a loss of control they actually managed to cheer me up by the end of the night. I've never actually said thank you properly to these two gals because they actually never fail to cheer me up and they second I told them my bad news they trekked all the way down to my house with hundreds of jokes lined up. So a public thank you to Iona Sethi and Rose McRae (made this joke before)  for cheering me up on that crap day.
I am going to get hate mail for posting pictures like this. Don't take pictures on my laptop or these things will happen. Cock eye central.

Anyway as I was saying 44 days. Is this a record? Its too good to be true! If you imagine how long it takes to sink in having cancer and to be told that I no longer have an "active disease" is just unbelievable! It still has not sunk it, I still flinch at the word cancer and I wake up sometimes in total disbelief that this has happened to me. 44 DAYS?! I still got a long long way to go but this wee post was just to say thank you to everyone who has wished me well, prayed for me, supported me, made me laugh, came into see me. I can't thank you enough!

Anyway cancer pal, Laura Gibson, has written a blog about me and my good news. I recommend you read that and the whole blog! Before and since being diagnosed I read it all the time and I found it so helpful and so interesting, I practically know it word for word (eek stalker alert!). I swear I could be a haematologist after this ordeal, when you go through something like this you learn a lot! I've learnt so much from Laura's blog its FAB. She's a real inspiration and I am so so so glad she wrote this blog!

http://laurasroadtorecovery.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-only-way-is-up.html?spref=tw



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