We are now almost a week past Amanda's partial mastectomy and all signs are point to awesome. She is recovering very well and, best of all, last night we received news that all biopsied nodes were negative for cancer. I have really come to love using "negative" in so positive a fashion.
Amanda's spirits are obviously high, but I think she will always approach each doctor's visit with caution and reserve. Whether that is a good or bad thing is moot, as it is one of the results of having been through this particular ringer. Friends who are survivors have told us that life will quickly become split for us as Before Cancer (BC) and After Cancer (AC). For Amanda AC is more than likely going to be a new and different outlook on all things. How could it not be? For me and for Yeats AC is much the same, coupled with a consciousness of those things we take for granted, and a vow to try to do less of that. For us as a family AC is a chance to keep the momentum of support and encouragement from the past several months vital. It is an opportunity to grow from what we have learned about each other and about others who are going through this. It is a chance to not fall back into old patterns, but to create new means of dealing with BC issues that are still around today. How do we do that? What does all of that mean? These are the questions that we now face. Luckily, I think that we have learned enough to answer these in a much different way than we would have BC.
Here is to a new year. So far as I am concerned, Amanda is now younger than me, and on 3/30/2016 we will be celebrating her birthday, 1 year AC.
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