Yesss! Today turned to be the day! I went to hyperbaric chamber for the first time. I settled in, the pressure reached 1.5 atm and after popping my ears a few times I dozed off. I woke up because my good friend who is doing the hyperbaric chamber was knocking on the porthole brandishing some papers. Those papers were my pathology results and they were clean! That’s what the 7 previous months were for – complete pathological remission. I am rejoiced, of course. Now I really feel I can start living life rather than waiting if the actual life is going to happen and making plans. By the end of the day I do feel drained. It is exactly the same feeling one has after taking the finals and getting your grade. Or when I was told that I was in for med school because I did get the highest grade in chemistry and the rest of the exams were not needed. You feel like everything went into that humongous effort and for a moment you are an empty vessel – devoid of strength and emotion. Nevertheless the scale went to the good 50%. I am not off the hook and I am not sure I will ever be but today, this hour and this minute there is a very good chance that there is no cancer in my body. I am waiting for another DNA monitoring test that will be back in a week or two but honestly now I CAN have my hopes high. Maybe 7-11 is just my lucky number. It also adds to 18 – definitely a lucky number in Jewish religion. With that Shabbat Shalom and good weekend!
FABULOUS NEWS!!!
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