Maybe I’m not up for something this big.” Of course, it also meant using up in one fell swoop all the goodwill and sympathy I had amassed during the previous 11 months.
It was significant that I could handle such a trip-it is far, and it was work, mostly, really-without any thought along the lines of, “Gee, I just recovered from a potentially life-threatening disease. Indeed, everything was so good so quickly that when a work opportunity presented itself that meant a month in Bali for me and my husband, Steve, we jumped on it. Silverstein, from the Van Nuys Breast Center over to the USC/Norris cancer center) just shakes his head and calls me a poster girl for chemotherapy. Waisman (who followed my surgical oncologist, Dr. But overall, life pretty much picked up where I left it off, two autumns ago. Not that there weren’t small things to bounce back from. I’m not so frivolous that I don’t continue, daily, to be grateful that the profound good luck that colored my treatment, and the results of same, has continued. That heavy stuff is too wearying.ĭon’t get me wrong.
General health-pretty much like it should be.Īnd so with those petty issues out of the way, this frees me to focus on the really important matters, like my continuing self-satisfaction with my new hair, and how my post- chemo pounds have left my butt lumpy. Tests, mammograms, physical exams-all clean. Concerned onlookers ask, in worried tones, “How are you?” and I shrug. After my personal melodrama sputtered to an undramatic conclusion, the follow-up has continued to similarly lack headline quality, thank goodness and mercy and light. Yep, here I am, eight months after the conclusion of treatment, and the commencement of Tamoxifen, and everything health-wise is divinely dull. Today, she updates us.Īfter going down the “how’s this and how’s that?” checklist and getting variations on “just fine, thanks” in response, my oncologist, Dr. Mary Susan Herczog chronicled her battle with breast cancer in The Times from December 1997 to August 1998.
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