It is a New Year!!!

A Happy New Year to all who read this.

I know that many who might be reading this and directed to our Chemo Gang site have come a long way on a journey, a journey that maybe they never thought they dreamed they would be on...a cancer journey. The journey that was then or is now truly a journey of struggle to get to the other side. The journey comes with pain, numbness, maybe sleepless nights and days, anxiety, depression, tiredness, confusion. You might feel you are "stuck in the middle". BUT, BUT....

try not to stay there for too long, concentrate on the finishing of this journey...see yourself at the end of your treatments, whether they are chemo, radiation or both. See yourself on the road to healing and recovery. See that you have learned some things while there, maybe some tough learning. See your world and your life with new eyes for that is what this journey gives you!!!! See that this journey has shown you a different way to approach life, things -- things that you might have considered so important to you before this journey, and now they have been erased from your list!!.

See yourself in this NEW YEAR, everyday changing, growing, healing, healing, healing! See yourself picking up where you left off, before your journey, but now with a new mindset.

The journey is so different for everyone on it...some struggle more than others...but we all took it together....we understand because we were there at some point.

My wish and hope and prayer for you who are on it right now is that it will be over soon and you will be strenthened, that your healing will come quickly and that you will be able to enjoy some of those things that you had "on hold" while waiting for this journey to come to completion. God Bless You in this New Year 2008!!!

Mary Ann T.