There are a million things that run through your head when
you get a dreaded diagnosis like cancer.
First of all the big long term issues like your own mortality flood your
awareness. Then you try to process
how it will impact your day-to-day life in all the smaller but still
significant ways. Once I realized
my course of treatment would include a summer full of chemotherapy one of the
things that upset me the most was the possibility that I would not be able to
attend my niece’s wedding in Mexico.
I did not know how well I would tolerate the chemo, if there would be
complications or even if you are “allowed” to travel in the middle of
treatment.
While it has been no walk in the park, I have tolerated chemo
fairly well and have not had any significant complications. While Dr. Singh was quite fearful
of the crime situation in Mexico he did not see any medical reasons for me not
to go. So – knock on wood, knock
on wood, knock on wood – tomorrow morning, bright and early, I should be on an
airplane in route to Cancun.
I will report back when slathered in sunscreen, sitting
under a large umbrella, and drinking a virgin margarita on the beach.
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