Day 14 -- Final Infusion

I had my fourth, and hopefully, final infusion today.  They sped this infusion up so it only took about 90 minutes.  I must say, "I handled it brilliantly!!"  No side effects.  All lymph nodes that had previously been in an uproar have been silenced. I feel fantastic.   Three of my dear tennis friends went with me so of course we had to have lunch and do some shopping afterward.  Friends, food, and fun trumps an infusion and reminds me that the upcoming two months waiting for my next abdominal CT will be more easily borne.  This cancer is not a life sentence.....wait, actually it is.  It's a conviction and constant reminder to live.  I am very blessed, but I seem to need constant reminders to enjoy my life.  When I was sick in 2004, I heard a voice in my head telling me I was being given a second chance.  I knew I was cured and for the next several years felt a renewed vitality for my life.  These past two years, however, have been difficult w/ the death of my mother and my divorce, and I lost my zest for living.  I'm regaining my gusto and realizing that everything does truly happen for a reason.  Seven years ago the brain aneurysm led the doctors to the kidney cancer.  Now, seven years later, my checkups for the kidney cancer led the doctors to the lymphoma.  The hand of God is at work in my life........that's a life sentence.