Joy

If you had told me a week ago that I would be this happy that Michie had to go through radiation treatments for six week, I would have looked at you like you were crazy. It is truly amazing how relative everything is in your life.

When we arrived at school today, everyone had stories of how they or someone in their family was sick and facing serious illness. It was scary. But it also served to give us a healthy perspective about what we were actually facing. We realized that this is small potatoes compared to what else is out there. That we were lucky on so many fronts.

With the lab results coming back as negative, we were both just bouncing off the walls. When we picked up Max at school we told him that we had good news. He looked straight at us and said, "No cancer?" "Yep", we replied. "No cancer in the lymph nodes." He just smiled and kept working on his project. The we went out for a celebration dinner and ice cream cones.

As far as I am concerned Michie is cancer free at this point. They got the cancer out, with clear margins and it hasn't spread into her lymph nodes. We will just do the radiation to kill any little bastards that might have gotten away.

Oh and by the way. My follow up mammogram came back negative for any cancer this morning.