{"id":242,"date":"2019-11-25T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2019\/11\/25\/one-year\/"},"modified":"2020-03-04T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T21:05:54","slug":"one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2019\/11\/25\/one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here I am, one year since I got the confirmation that I was cancer free. In remission as the medical folks say or healed as I like to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can still remember the first visit with the oncologist where, amongst other things, she said &#8221; this will be a life altering event&#8221;.  And of course it was, more that I was expecting and of course I didn&#8217;t even know what to expect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond the physical aspects which thankfully came and went the longer lasting impact has been the mental aspects. Very few, if any days pass where I don&#8217;t think about the Cancer experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we&#8217;re back at the hospital for a follow-up visit and going up one flight of stairs I remember the first time up these stairs where I was out of breath from the exertion due to the tumor press on my lung. After only 2 chemo treatments I noticed a significant improvement on the stairs and today I can climb them with ease. Thank you Jesus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days  the on and off battle is in the mind. A few days ago I watched a TV show where a guy about my age who had cancer and was in remission found out it had reoccurred and was dealing with telling his family that he wasn&#8217;t going to do chemo again. I was in a funk for about a day as a result even as I tried not to let myself think &#8220;what if&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working on staying focused on my Healer and living large. So thankful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am, one year since I got the confirmation that I was cancer free. In remission as the medical folks say or healed as I like to say. I can still remember the first visit with the oncologist where, amongst other things, she said &#8221; this will be a life altering event&#8221;. And of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2019\/11\/25\/one-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,15,20],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-blood-work","tag-cancercare","tag-checkup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}