Cancer, Covid, and Crypto.. The Past Year.

It's been a year ago this week since Cancer burst into our lives and changed literally everything. If anyone hasn't been following along last August 2020, my husband was diagnosed with cancer.

At first, it started with some tests, and eventually, the first biopsy came back with cancer cells... The next weeks felt like a storm of tests, meetings, anxiety and the news just felt worse and worse.

As you Joe was diagnosed with Stage 4 nsclc with spread to the brain and throughout the lymph node system. The Oncologist said he would be on Chemo for the rest of his life and he would never be cancer-free.''

With Covid in full force treatment was hard, meetings with doctors were hard. I am really hoping we don't run into further problems.

We immediately threw everything we could at it from Radiation and Chemo to a full diet change, 40 supplements a day, and even a Reiki Healer.

I don't know what worked, but something did... by Dec he was off chemo and showing massive improvement. He also had all the wear and tear of someone who has had radiation. The scans at the time showed vast improvement and the Oncologist was truly surprised. By April of this year, he was NED. No evidence of disease.

We were excited, elated, and felt victorious.

This week he had blood tests and check-in and everything was looking good.

Next scans and determination of what our next steps are 5 weeks out now.

I'd love to say the whole experience launched us into a new appreciation of life and activity, but he's still not gaining weight or energy and of course, we are very happy he is alive.. Feeling WELL again still feels like a long way away.

We spent so much time and energy this year studying cancer, fighting cancer, adjusting our life plans.. that I am not sure we know quite what to do now! lol.

In any case, he is doing well!

This week we celebrate our 30th Anniversary and are renting a boat and hanging out on near Friday Harbor, WA.

What a year of Cancer, Covid and Crypto we had.

@whatsup