[69goatboy]

I received some damned good news today.
I finished up chemo last week and had a CT scan on Tuesday.
I got the official "all clear" message from my Oncologist earlier today.

So, I am now officially cancer free.

I'll still have to go the docs a few times a year the next 5 years for various pokes, prods, and scopes. They tell me that if I can remain cancer free for 5 years, the re-occurrence rate is statistically zero.

I was diagnosed with stage 3b colon cancer back in February. That resulted in surgery to shorten my exhaust pipe by about a foot. 18 lymph nodes were in the portion that was removed, with 8 of them showing cancer activity, a high number I'm told. So the next step was 8 chemo infusions. During the 6th, I became severely allergic to the main chemo drug, so I stopped there and went into 28 radiation treatments and chemo pills. When that was done, I took even more chemo pills for 3 more months (to replace the almost 3 infusions that I didn't get), the last of which I took last week.

So, now I get the distinct pleasure to go home and tell my kids that I am no longer sick and they can have their daddy back.

Christmas came early for me this year.

My thoughts and prayers go out to those still fighting the fight and their loved ones that are going through the battle as well.