Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 17:54:11 GMT -5
Sorry to make such a personal post but I just have to share the news I received today.
My oncologist phoned and said that the 'complication' that they'd spotted on my last two PETscans is not serious after all and merely relates to my original operation and the healing scar tissue left behind. And that means that after months of chemotherapy I'm completely clear of the Hodgkins Lymphoma that has been dogging me since the early part of this year.
So the gift I've been given this Christmas is not something new, high-tec and flashy, but something far more important and something that from time to time despite trying to keep a positive outlook over the past months, I've thought that there was a chance I might lose.
But thanks to the incredible team here in Périgueux and the support of all my family and friends in the UK, here in France and elsewhere who have picked me up when I've been down and helped me through the most difficult time of my life, I've been given the gift of my life back.
And that for me has been both thought-provoking and humbling.
So here's wishing everyone on here a warm, loving and peaceful Christmas with those close to you. I have been forced to confront my own mortality and now see clearly that life is short and besides making sure that we live each day in the best way that we can, we must also seek out the positives in humanity that bring us together rather than the negatives that divide us.
I wish that there was an easy way of putting that thought into action, but there's not. But it can't do any harm to keep repeating it.
My oncologist phoned and said that the 'complication' that they'd spotted on my last two PETscans is not serious after all and merely relates to my original operation and the healing scar tissue left behind. And that means that after months of chemotherapy I'm completely clear of the Hodgkins Lymphoma that has been dogging me since the early part of this year.
So the gift I've been given this Christmas is not something new, high-tec and flashy, but something far more important and something that from time to time despite trying to keep a positive outlook over the past months, I've thought that there was a chance I might lose.
But thanks to the incredible team here in Périgueux and the support of all my family and friends in the UK, here in France and elsewhere who have picked me up when I've been down and helped me through the most difficult time of my life, I've been given the gift of my life back.
And that for me has been both thought-provoking and humbling.
So here's wishing everyone on here a warm, loving and peaceful Christmas with those close to you. I have been forced to confront my own mortality and now see clearly that life is short and besides making sure that we live each day in the best way that we can, we must also seek out the positives in humanity that bring us together rather than the negatives that divide us.
I wish that there was an easy way of putting that thought into action, but there's not. But it can't do any harm to keep repeating it.
