Twenty
years ago, this week I finished my last chemotherapy for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
The notes in my diary from that day simply state, “This is my final treatment
and I thought it would never be finished. I kept watching for the last drop.”
That
was a long time ago. Even though my diagnosis is considered treatable but not
curable, the longer I remain in remission the lower the odds are of recurrence.
That was true at ten and fifteen years. It is especially true, this week at
twenty! I am blessed to have had a tolerable treatment regimen and a favorable
outcome.
Many
of you know that our family took my diagnosis combined with the loss of my
father to leukemia and turned it into a passion of raising money for blood
cancer research. Over the past nineteen years our family (The Blanton Bunch)
has raised and donated over $565,000 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Lemons to Lemonade, my friends! The only
answer for blood cancers is funding research for a cure.
I can’t
believe it has been twenty years…
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