Hydrate or Die!

I feel fantastic and hopeful again after meeting with my oncologist this morning. She said my recent scans, bloodwork and organ function all look great, so there is no reason to think that my cancer is back and no reason to go back on treatment. I will have a PET scan, bloodwork and another doctor visit the end of April/beginning of May. Until then, I am free to just live again! I intend to use the next few months off of treatment to get back into good physical shape. I just got a good wake up call and some major motivation.  I have been hydrating and moving a lot since getting out of the hospital. I don’t usually drink much in a day, so I put some orange slices in my water, and it has helped me keep hydrating. Hydrate or die, my stepsister says, and it’s true. My oncologist suspects I either inherited or acquired a blood clotting disorder. I read you can acquire one from certain cancer treatments. At any rate, still a bit nervous that I might be dealing with this same problem in three weeks and still a bit nervous that a complication from treatment from cancer could kill me instead of cancer itself. But, I’m overall hopeful and happy again after my appointment with my oncologist. I have an appointment with my new primary care doctor on Friday. In the first week of March, I have another appointment with a doctor who will, hopefully, be able to give me more insight into what is going on and what happened regarding the blood clots in my lungs. And I get the results from my genetic testing. If I don’t write again before, I’ll write again the first week of March. I cannot believe it’s going to be March already!! In July, it will be five years since being diagnosed with metastatic cancer. At the time, the five-year survival rate for metastatic cancer was grim, I think around 30 percent. I am going to celebrate the heck out of making it to five years! And if I do, it feels, for some reason, I can survive longer than that with metastatic breast cancer. I will have beaten those statistics that always plague me in the back of my mind no matter how hard I try to ignore them. Well, back to living for today. I need to hydrate, get outside for a walk before the sun goes down and make a good, healthy dinner! Stay safe and healthy, everyone!