The Recovery Road
When you are a cancer survivor, there are many milestones/anniversaries that are a reminder of how blessed you and your family are. Dennis was diagnosed with colon cancer a little over 1 ½ years ago. He completed his radiation treatment 15 months ago. His last chemotherapy treatment ended almost 8 months ago. Currently, we are coming up on the one year anniversary of his colon resection surgery. This first surgery took place on April 7, 2010. We received a call from the surgeon on April 12th (the day he came home from the hospital) letting us know the biopsies came back negative for cancer. Dennis has blood work done every three months which continues to show he remains cancer free. God is good! While this is the good news we desired and continue to hope for, it doesn’t mean that everything has gone back to normal. The fact is, Dennis is still recovering. He is recovering from radiation, chemotherapy and surgery. There are side effects that linger from each of these. In some ways, reco