February 28, 2010 - Sick from chemotherapy; weak from two months of nasty chemicals. I can walk around the block or even do a small amount of cross-country skiing on a really good day. Looking forward, I still have to go through mastectomies and radiation therapy. I have cancer, and there's no telling if the treatment will be totally effective.
Fast forward to February 28, 2011. I look like a monster with my shirt off - or maybe like an old man - concave chest and big belly. BUT (and this is a very big, important but), I am so healthy, so strong and so happy! The cancer is gone, the surgery is long over and the chemo and rad therapy are now only memories. AND today, I am in Utah in the Big Cottonwood canyon, skiing. Downhill skiing all day today at Brighton and I'm skiing better than ever! It's a surprise to me that, at age 54, I am still capable of improving my skiing skills. But to be able to get better at it after all that junk, well, it's amazing and humbling. I am a lucky, lucky person!
Tomorrow, we go to Snowbird...
Fast forward to February 28, 2011. I look like a monster with my shirt off - or maybe like an old man - concave chest and big belly. BUT (and this is a very big, important but), I am so healthy, so strong and so happy! The cancer is gone, the surgery is long over and the chemo and rad therapy are now only memories. AND today, I am in Utah in the Big Cottonwood canyon, skiing. Downhill skiing all day today at Brighton and I'm skiing better than ever! It's a surprise to me that, at age 54, I am still capable of improving my skiing skills. But to be able to get better at it after all that junk, well, it's amazing and humbling. I am a lucky, lucky person!
Tomorrow, we go to Snowbird...
