Sunday, September 15, 2013

3 Years!!!

Tomorrow, September 16,2013 marks 3 years cancer free! So much has changed over these last 3 years, most of which I never would have imagined possible as I was laying in that hospital bed at the Mayo Clinic going through my 2nd bone marrow transplant in as many years. On January 28,2011 I wrote a very honest post about being scared. About how I feared death and feared the unknown that I was facing at the time. I wish I could say now that I no longer fear the unknown, but I can say that I embrace the unknown as it has only brought me positivity since that time. The doctors at one point gave me a 25-30% chance of living more than 5 years; which to be honest scared me and probably did more harm than good at the time. But as I look back on the past three years now, I am glad that they told me this because it has made me embrace each and every day for what it truly is, a gift. Life is too short to worry about what might happen, we m