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Treatment ended at the turn of the year and that I can officially claim REMISSION. YES!!! My energy is slowly returning, just enough to get to the mountain and into the garden and gently on my mat. I am beyond grateful that I am able to participate in my children’s lives by attending soccer games and concerts, to be able to take them to the park and movies and play with them for hours as opposed to the occasional minutes…
My last full asana practice was in July. After 4 surgeries on the chest, back, and armpit and 6 months of intense cancer treatment I can barely hold myself up in down dog, plank is a shaky quake, my hips are like wishbones waiting to split, and my toes might as well be in Long Island. It will be months before I am ‘back’…. And really, what does that matter….I am alive, and I have my breath. My body has…
My ritual practices for closing out this year began on the Winter Solstice. I find it no coincidence that on that very morning, nature as she often does, gifted me with a most magnificent and symbolic spectacle. I was lying in bed and contemplating the nature of birds, my healing, my feelings of oppression. I was imaging what it would be like to leap from the tallest branches and coast along sheer sky or, the sense of freedom a bird…
It has been a while since I’ve posted, and I have been asked by friends and colleagues to update my progress. Over the course of my treatment, I have been reluctant to share the private and intimate details of my struggles. I have never felt so fragile and vulnerable in my life, and it takes a tremendous amount of energy and courage for me to share this painful, scary and revealing process. I have been on a high does Interferon…
