Things around

All is good in Evans' world! We have been out of treatment for 4 weeks now and everything looks good. Two weeks after Rituximab, Ric had 93,000 platelets and 3.8 white blood cells. 4 weeks after we are at 141,000 platelets and a whopping 6.1 white blood cells!! He's only on 10mg of prednisone per day. 

As always, I am cautiously optimistic. It seems that we are heading in the right direction, even though I know that Evans can creep up on us at any moment. However, at this moment, I choose to believe we are heading in the right direction.

There are so many things going on around me. My mom was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. They caught it super early! The specialist says that she will be in the 5% of people that survive it. My uncle, who's had cancer for a few years now and is really more like a dad than an uncle,  seems to be having a rougher time as time goes by. I am just so thankful that Evans has given me a little break so I can have time to deal with everything else around me.

I have had to learn that things are not happening TO me, but AROUND me. That I have a choice on how to deal with all of it without losing my mind. That the same day I receive great numbers from Ric, I hear my mom has to go through 12 rounds of chemo and 1 of radio to prevent the tumor from growing back again. I choose to tell my mom, "look at Ric! 4 chemos and apparently they are working"! I have chosen to be a positive force, once again. Even when I know, this is the hardest path to follow.

I just hope Ric is closer to remission, mom is closer to a cure and my uncle is closer to having some peace.