Subject: RE: 18-months cancer-freeI'm trying to recall, but It will be three years in December since the surgery and radiation. Two more years to get the "all clear"... Honestly, for ME, the only real lingering effect is that nagging "worry" that pops up occasionally. I feel fine day to day and "cancer" doesn't cross my mind at all on most days BUT, it's that occasional odd pain, or bump, or something feeling "off" that I get a quick little panic attack before I breath and think it's just getting older or just a simple ache or pain like I had BEFORE the treatments. I think it there will always be that "what if it's back" for the rest of my life when anything "odd" seems to be happening. I had a lingering ache in my neck for some reason last month and had the thinking "what if the cancer is back" when it really was just a pulled muscle or something that just went away after not talking for a couple days! (wife was gone over the weekend so I had little choice to not talk! Ended up being a good thing.) |