Joan on the Road...of Life

Waiting is the shi....excuse me ....pits!!! I had outpatient surgery on 1/31 to remove a tumor. The doc thought it looked like a fibroid, so I was really not too worried. However, after surgery he was concerned and the initial reading was cancer. Now I understand on a very personal level how deadly that word rings.

However, after 11 days and 3 opinions...all agree it is benign. CAT scans are normal. I'm healthy!! OH HAPPY DAY!

Usually I'm a very positive person but this really had me down. I painted all the worst scenarios in my mind. My kids and friends told me to BREATHE...watch movies, read, walk or have a drink. But in the dark of night I found what helped me sleep was to sing. There's that music again! And the best song of all was "pack up all my cares and woes, here I go, feeling low...bye, bye, blackbird"...(listen to Joe Cocker sing that on Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack). And yesterday morning I woke up hearing Glen Yarbrough singing "It's Gonna Be Fine".

OK...so that's over and life begins again. One thing I learned is that I love this life style. I had no sorry or regretful feelings about being in our motorhome while this was going on. I feared being tied down to a doctor, hospital, treatment that would keep us from traveling. So soon we'll be filling in those states on the door map!!!