Sorry I’ve been a little quiet on the blog for the last couple of weeks. I’m recovering from surgery for something completely unrelated to melanoma. It’s funny how much your body will force you to rest when it undergoes something invasive. I couldn’t keep my eyes open for days. However, I know I’m on the road to recovery when my insomnia made an appearance last night.
This situation got me thinking about how we often take good health for granted, until we don’t have good health – whether that’s temporary or a permanent thing. I was in the hospital and the nurse was helping me with something, when she saw the scar on my leg. (Because, you know, you have really no privacy in those hospital gowns…) She asked me if I had knee surgery. Well, no, that’s where they removed the melanoma. I said it matter-of-factly and she looked at me kinda funny. I realized that for most people, maybe melanoma isn’t so matter-of-fact. For most people, they might not say something like that so cavalier. I realized, even in my pain medication haze, that melanoma doesn’t seem to be the scariest thing in the room all the time for me anymore.
So, recovering on two fronts, right?
wishing you a fast recovery
Thank you so much!
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