Cody Updates by Mom

I cannot express the amount of happiness when I can say that as of tomorrow I will be 3 years cancer free!  Yay, to infinity and beyond!

In celebration of my 3 year day I am officially naming April 3rd, pink day.  I know that I cannot do that for more than me but, hey, we all need a day right?  So, what does “pink day” mean?  Well it means that I have been a little bit busy in the kitchen.  I have purchased an inordinate amount of pink sprinkles, sugar and other random pink edible decorations.  Hope that everyone at work that gave up sweets for lent can look past that for one day.

Over the last couple weeks, I have been looking up what the color pink means.  What’s interesting to me is that there were many different sites that commented the same on the color.  Pink can mean tenderness, love, innocence, HOPE and OPTIMISM.  However, on the negative side it means weak, vulnerable or silly.  For those of you that know me, I do not put a lot of weight on these types of psycho-babble.  Pink has always been an interesting color for me.  It hasn’t been in my top choices until recently, well, three years ago to be exact.  Tomorrow I will wear pink.  Why?  To show that hope and optimism can poke a million holes in weakness and vulnerability.  I may not be cancer free for my whole life but right now I am and I fought hard for it.

Even though I am celebrating tomorrow at work, I am unable to celebrate with everyone that touched my journey.  If my family or friends are running through the Edina area they can stop in and say hi!  I am sure that there will be a treat left somewhere.  I would like to apologize.  To be brutally honest, I am not that great of a friend.  I tend to be more hermit-like and like to be at home.  This doesn’t really lend itself to getting together with my friends.  For this, I am sorry.  I wish that I had more of an internal ability to manage all the stuff to make it all work.  Please know that you are all very dear to me.  I think of you all so very often and wish you were simply next door so I could bring you some sweets to say thank you.

In the entire three years of fun, I never walked alone.  I not only had my immediate family that is awesome, I had extended family and amazing friends that were all a part of my journey.  Thank you all for the prayers, thoughts and the supportive ways that you all were a part of my life.  I am truly blessed.

I would have never thought that I would be here today as I am.  I am missing some random body parts but in the end I am whole.  I feel whole.  I feel that life is good.  There are still those days that I feel overwhelmed with work or home.  I still have my down days and still doubt myself as most people do.  Overall, it is good.  That is all that matters.

Peace to you all and thank you for being part of my journey.

Mel