No Cancer Anywhere!

WOW!

Ahhh…. My heart sings and sighs. My mind races with wonder and bewilderment.

During our visit with the surgeon on Tuesday, she read aloud Sarah’s pathology report. There was NO sign of cancer. This was the surgeon’s first reading of the report; she was shocked and celebrated with us. She has never seen this before. With 30 years experience she has never seen this before!

Sarah and I looked at each other with tears in our eyes. We did not know what to think or say or how to act.

Thoughts rush in… like water gushing over sand stone washing the worries away with it. For some reason I look for permission to celebrate. In this journey, we have found “positive bad news” proliferates our conversations with our doctors.

Later in the day we spoke with the PA at our Oncology office, her response to the report as she read it for the first time, “Wow! I have never seen a pathology like this!…wow! Wow, wow, wow,…wow. ” She must have said wow no less than 15 times. She congratulated me and said this was cause for celebration.

Waves of emotion move through me. I feel as if a serpent has had my heart constricted and now new air is entering in and my body is trying to release and relax. Fear tries to re-enter, but the truth stands. Amazingly cautious and energized we moved through the rest of our day. I wanted to shout it from the rooftops!

What a freaking ride, what’s next?! What does this mean for the next step, radiation? Will her radiology team be just as surprised? Will they change perspective and change treatment? There is no remaining cancer, none found in all of the tissue and the 13 lymph nodes they removed…I think this is an exceptional case warranting a second look at the protocol.

Thank you for celebrating with us. We are thankful, amazed and just… wow.