only four weeks ago this morning, i heard the words "you have cancer."
things have moved incredibly fast – because of the size and location of the tumor, within a week i was in the hospital and two days after that i was in an operating room undergoing very major surgery. i have attemped to record the subsequent blur of recovery, the moments of elation ("im still alive!") and despair and neverending frustration.
when i started this blog in 2004 i never dreamed of putting it to such a purpose as this. but through this month this blog has provided me with a kind of anchor – to my friends and family, to my pre-cancer self, and to my intended future, too.
my mother commented this morning, in an email: she described my blog as "life art of very beautiful delineation." though its from my own mother, it still strikes me as high praise – i have indeed felt happily humbled by some of the effusive feedback received.