I arrived on Wednesday the 25th of July and stayed til Wednesday the 1st of August!!! It was the most amazing time running around and seeing where everyone lived and catching up with them!! I went out for the most fabulous meals, saw the most amazing people and I even had a shot of Madori while partying in the cook!!
I almost felt like a normal teenager. I still have a long way to go to being like everyone else, I still occasionally need naps in the afternoon and my leg still hurts if I push it too far!! But life is looking up. I actually cannot wait til it's me at University!
This is a photo of the lovely QMC girly dinner!!
The lovely Sarah and Kate and I had a lovely girls night in watching 'Finding Nemo' and having a cheeky few. The blue thing's are shark lollies because obviously they wanted to go swimming!
I used to have trouble even imagining my life would be like it is now!! Everything is happening so quickly, time is seeming to fly by. I have now been back for over a week (I needed a wee bit of recovery time!) but it only seems like I just got back!
It's nearly my birthday too which means that it has nearly been a year since all of this started. I was diagnosed on the 25th of August last year, the day before my birthday and in 16 days it will be my one year of living with cancer.
1/19 of my life. It feels like a lifetime ago that I was a normal eighteen year old. I don't think I ever will be normal again. I think in a way this will affect me for the rest of my life. Not just physically with things like not being able to play sports and being limited with movement but also mentally it will always be a part of me.
But as I move further on I make new memories that don't relate to cancer. It will always be there but there is life after cancer and those who care that I had cancer don't matter and those who don't care at all do.
I love working at the library because the kids do not care about anything, not what you look like but just if you are nice or not. It also supplies great entertainment. Today a little boy came into the library crying, apparently some girl had given him a hug and he now he had girl cooties and they were incurable. He said this as he was hugging me, he then looked up and said "Oh no!!! You're a girl too!!!" and howled harder.
Thankfully cancer is not contagious but obviously girl cooties are.
<3 so cute, especially that little boy
ReplyDeleteTwo significantly sad and long lasting things have happened to us in the past three years and, like you, I don't think I will ever go back to the me before those two times when life changed forever. Just today, a person who was involved in the first of the events did something (again) which reminded me that it was 'this time' back then when it started and 'this time' last year I was coping with the second thing.
ReplyDeleteDespite all the hype about grief and loss and struggle, these thing DO define us in a way in that they are scratched into our psyche and, unless a person has been through similar, they will never quite get the way our 'changed' brain works.
What I think (and what I tell my daughter) is that few people do understand for those unfortunate enough to one day find themselves in a similar situation and that's when we can front up and be the support just as there were those who were able to support us and our family when we needed it.
And yay for girlfriends and good times and blue sharks!