We've been talking about this whole episode and about how quickly everything has happened. In hindsight, it's nearly as if it hasn't happened at all. They discovered the polyp and removed it, did a colon resection a few days later and now she's back at work. The biggest memory of all this is having to drink the damned electrolytes to flush her out. It was the worst part of the whole thing.
We haven't really had a chance to think about any of this. Cancer is discovered; fffft, it is removed, and on we go. There's no call for follow up treatment and Charlotte is free to do anything she feels can be done. In a weird sort of way, I almost feel like saying "Wait a minute. Is that it? Isn't something else supposed to happen?"
The specter of cancer is such an ugly thing. All my life I've been conditioned to be terrified of a cancer diagnosis and yet, when it actually happens, it's all over so fast that I don't have a chance to give it any thought. How can anything this disastrous and important be resolved so quickly? Do we now have to wait for the other shoe?
The doctor at today's appointment, who did the surgery, is very happy with her condition. He foresees no problems, and other than regular checkups and colonoscopies everything is headed to normality. Obviously this is what we want to hear and it makes our lives much easier hearing it.
But, we can't carry on as if none of this ever happened, even though that's what we would like. Each one of these occurrences gets added to life's portfolio and there it permanently changes the future in some way.
It did finally snow yesterday. Not much, but enough to make white scenery. So, time continues to pass at high speed and events continue to unfold. This blip hasn't slowed the progression down, and we're thinking it shouldn't slow us either.
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