Good news...

My Doctor,oncologist, called to let me know that my follow-up tests (done Wednesday) show no signs of metastatic disease in my right lung. Previous tests ruled out there being being metestatic disease anywhere else in my body, and my blood work for tumor markers came back clear. So this is good news. It's means that there is no signs of cancer anywhere in my body.
In the last week specifically, I felt that this was true. My gut feeling was that i was cancer free, as I was feeling so well and so "normal". As I've mentioned before, my life has been, thus far "anything but normal...".
When I heard a month ago that my right lung was irregular and possibly damaged by radiation or the site of metestatic breast cancer, I thought it was the later as I was not well and right before I headed to the hospital, felt like I was dying.As it turned out my body was in serous trouble, not from cancer, but because my electralites were very unbalanced and my potassium levels had bottomed out. I felt comatose and my muscles began seizing, but after a week in the hospital they had me almost back to normal. After another week of potassium pills, I felt the best I had in a very long time.
As the last few weeks passed, I felt better and better in every way. Currently, I don't have to take any medications at all to get through my day. I still have some dizziness from the labrithintitis (inner ear balance disorder) but even that is sooooo much better than it was.
I'm now able to eat a balanced diet through the day and I've been able to take vitamins for the first time in 6 months, without feeling sick. My body will take time to rebuild all of it's strength, muscles and organs, but I feel confident that it will in the next while. My faith in my body is returning and I'm learning to trust it again.
I'm looking forward to start excercising regularly again, little by little, as my lungs will allow. Currently my right lung is limited, but my left is healthy and should compensate for the weakness of the right. It will take longer to rebuild my cardio-vascular health, but in time it should be as strong as it once was.
I don't plan on walking the 60kms for the wekend to end breast cancer, like I once did, but perhaps next year. I also won't be running the 5kms for the Run for the Cure, but last year I couldn't even walk the 1 km as it was only 2 days post chemo.
My goal will be to walk the 5kms in October, pushing my youngest daughter in the stroller and holding the hand of my oldest.
It is my intention to walk the 5kms every year, with my two girls, holding hands of their children...and so on.