I’m sitting at a bus stop in Dupont Circle, en route to my final cancer treatment. The scans remain clear and they will stay that way, I know it, because the medicine of love and purpose I’ve had for the last few months is stronger than all the chemo and has kept my energy high through three weeks of daily radiation.
I’ve just discovered that Dupont has its own wifi service, which means that as I sit here enjoying one of many extraordinary days to come in my young life, I can share that moment with all of you.
I am OFFICIALLY DONE WITH CANCER. The Hodgklumps have been defeated, and I have to return my cancer card now. On the whole, I am happy to do so.
A great big shout out HELLO WORLD!!!!!!
For many years, I thought I would not make it past 30. It was a sense I had, and life’s intuition spoke that truth to me as through it were a certainly. I think I dealt with it rather well, actually, never becoming overly dark even as urgency filled me. And yet sometimes life speaks such certainties only to lead you down a path that you would not have otherwise followed - and like the oracle who speaks to Leo in The Matrix, when consulted again, will come to say ‘the prophesy was what you needed to hear THEN for you to be where you are NOW.’
I am no more sure that I will last forever than I was before the cancer, and yet I am far more at peace with the certainty that I won’t. Some very small part of that arrogance of youth has chipped away in me. My only hope is that when my health deteriorates again (and it will) that I should be blessed with even HALF the love that has surrounded and lifted me over the journey of the past eight months.
Illness is arbitrary, love is abundant.
And now, emerging from my cave after a long hibernation, this bear stumbles sleepily into the open air and spies before her … through the rustling of tree branches… what’s that… why it’s a…..CARIBOU!!!!!
AAAAAAAARRRA-AAARRRRRROOOOOOOOOAAAAHHHH ROOOAooaaaahhhhHHH!!
AAARRRRRRAaaahhhhRRRRRRRgGHHHH!
Sliding into home base on this, my last day of cancer, I hereby officially launch the work of my committed team of eight, and the reason why I did not make it to bed last night -- THE 2008 SWING SEMESTER WEBSITE – www.swingsemester.org!
And with it, the following image, sent to me today by my (second) biggest Seattle cheerleader….http://www.wecanbelievein.com/index.php?change=Cancer+Ass+Whupping
CELEBRATE CELEBRATE tonight we CELEBRATE with baklavah and beer!!
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