Thank you bowel cancer.
Yesterday I had my last blood test to check my CEA levels. This has been my wee ritual every 3 months for the last 5 years. 20 blood tests have come back showing my tumor marker levels within a normal range, along with more MRI’s and CT scans then I can count and the final conclusion is that after a bloody hard battle I am now cancer free. Ill repeat that again. I am now cancer free. What does that mean for me? Well it means that every time I feel cold when no one else does that sinking feeling won’t creep in. When I just can’t seem to catch up on sleep and I feel so tired, it will just be because I’m hustling so hard, not because the cancer is back. Body aches and pains will just be from pushing myself at the gym. Just because I reached the mile stone of remission on Tuesday doesn’t mean that all these fears are erased immediately. It will take time to adjust to this new feeling of safety, just like it took time to adjust to the idea that I had cancer. When I speak to peopl