Birthday Blessings

Nothing really to write today. Just wanted to share that I did something yesterday that I haven’t been able to do since 2015 when I was first diagnosed with cancer: Get a pedicure. Not a big deal to most people, and it wasn’t really a big deal not to have one for eight years, but it was just something else that cancer took away. And yesterday I celebrated my birthday and being off treatment by getting a pedicure again! I started my bday morning off by getting a pedicure, complete with salt scrub, massage, foot mask and hot towels (ahhhhhhhh!), then I got a massage in the afternoon and ended the day with a pina colada at a restaurant on the water. I was sooooo relaxed after all that, I was ready for bed at eight o-clock! Am I getting old, or what?! I tried hard not to think about cancer, death, and how many more birthdays I might have left, but celebrating holidays, first and lasts tend to make a cancer patient think about those things. Overall, though, I tried to end the night by just being grateful – for a good day, for all my friends and family who wished me a happy birthday, for another birthday, another year, and for life. Thanks to you all for being a part of mine. I’ll write again within the next couple of weeks. I have a port flush coming up, and I usually write after them cuz cancer is on my mind again then. Stay safe and healthy, everyone!