Caveat: Three Years Cancer Free

In fact, almost eerily, I can quote nearly exactly from last year’s two-year anniversary. I will repeat it almost word-for-word, then, with details updated to match the curent situation.
3rd year anniversary… knock on wood.
It feels pre-emptive to announce this, today, because tomorrow, I have my scheduled checkup at the hospital, when they will do a scan and hopefully give me the “all clear.”
But today is the the official 3-year anniversary of my surgery, which was July 4th, 2013, and thus I feel like commemorating it today. I can always do a retraction if I get bad news next week – but I think I’d be feeling lousier in terms of health if I was going to get bad news. Who knows?
Last week was also the 16th anniversary of Michelle’s suicide. Her ghost still visits me, but less often lately.
I don’t really feel like meditating overmuch on “where I’m at,” right now. I’m just plugging along. Not great, not terrible, but hanging in there.
I have moments of great enjoyment in my job. And moments of frustration, too. I have greater frustration with my unfulfilled avocations – chiefly studying Korean, my writing, my art. But that’s nothing new, and there continue to be no major transformations on that front that are worth reporting or reflecting upon.
The one thing worth noting, in variance from last year: this last 6 months have been a bit more difficult than last year, because the Faustian bargain that was my radiation therapy “came back to collect,” so to speak. I have been struggling with some radiation necrosis in my jaw area, creating complications for what would have been routine dental work otherwise.
Life goes on.
Happy July 4th.
[daily log: walking, 6.5km]