Time passages…

A list of very important dates for me.

March 23, 2020— Covid pandemic lockdown. 

July 23, 2020- Breast Cancer Diagnosis and the beginning of active chemotherapy treatments.

January 7, 2021— chemotherapy is completed.

February 9, 2021— double mastectomy, Right lymph node dissection as outpatient.

March 30, 2021— radiation begins.

May 11, 2021— radiation ends.

It’s really just a list like any other. Yet, I believe history is important to keep in mind. Time. Time plays tricks on us. Memory expands, or contracts the evolution of events in our lives- although I really should be speaking for myself. I sometimes get caught not knowing if this phase of my life started in 2019 or 2020. It feels like forever.

Now it’s January 2022. My journey continues, I am healing. I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and suss out a path to take one step at a time. Resting in each step and stance. Looking back over my life, there have been several times when I have been brought up short to a full stop. A great pause. A time for doing nothing, which is really doing something. Thinking, hibernating, rejuvenating. Gathering my life force for what comes next.

Stillness; a pause.