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What a year!

 Things have been going well since my last post. We had good scan results at the end of April; stable disease. I am continuing to manage the chemo well.  I had been getting more nausea but my doctor suggested an additional medication that has worked wonders the past 2 cycles and it is helping with sleep so win-win! May 13th was the 1 year anniversary of starting "palliative chemo" and was also the day I received my second dose of the Moderna vaccine.  Those 2 events coinciding have really struck me and it has taken me a little while to digest.  I remember saying to my sister, at the beginning of the pandemic, that I felt like I was in a race with covid.  There are places I want to go and things I want to do with Ian and the kids and I feel like I've spent the past year biding my time for that.  Yes, having all this "extra time" with the kids feels like it should be a gift.... but it hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows.  As we all know, trying to navi...