Moving on, and Moving Up! Go With Your Dreams!!

As I have learned over the past 3 years, people have very different ways of dealing with cancer. For me, I embrace it and run with it. Recently, on a somewhat routine trip to the City of Hope with my friend Holly, we stopped to grab a bite at a local fast food joint. As we sat there chatting up a storm, which was our usual thing, a handsome bald cop walked in. My mouth dropped, as Holly knew that I had a thing for bald men. As the cop was leaving, I said to him "I love your bald head!" He turned towards me and smiled, and i responded with my little splurge of why "I had cancer, and ever since, I love em baldies!" He pulled up a chair and sat with us at the table and talked with us. He told us how he had 3 fellow officers whose wives all were diagnosed with cancer, or as he phrased it "The C Word". He was so sweet and so gung-ho about helping us promote the event within his police department. So cute! :) Awwww... So, Mister handsome police officer leaves the place and I notice his car is still there after a few minutes. Sure enough he walks back into the restaurant with check in hand and writes out a check. I'd like a ticket please. He says as he hands the check to me. How sweet!!! It's amazing people like him, that brighten my day - he didn't know me, but yet he wrote a check there on the spot to attend the event. Oops! Now you all will know about my bald cop friend. Lol.

So, as I was saying...... Surviving cancer is one thing. Thriving after cancer is a whole other thing. As I am approaching my 2 year stem cell transplant reunion on April 30th, I am looking at all that I have accomplished over this short amount of time. I went from being deathly ill to remission to a relapse and a stem cell transplant, all the while doing some public speaking here and there and working on starting my cancer organization UCAAN. This is where your dreams come into play. You have a choice, as far as what you'd want to do with your life, after this experience - would you like to continue on the path you've been on, or would you choose the road less traveled and decide to do something more, something different, maybe even something you've never even expected yourself to do?! I think it's best to follow your dreams. Cancer can and will change your life. Sometimes it's for the better, and it may take you some time to realize this - but all in all, it's your experience, your journey and your life. "Life's what you make it!" What will you do with yours?