On a day where the UK struggles to come to terms with the fact we've now had over 100,000 deaths following the outbreak of COVID-19 in March last year (the worst figures in Europe and the worst in the world if you look at it per capita 😳) it almost feels wrong for me to go on to say that we felt a huge wave of relief, elation as well as exhaustion in our house today after being told George's cancer free news yesterday!
...it might well shock you to know that the most overwhelming feeling out of those three was actually exhaustion. Of course we're utterly over the moon, with the alternative outcome just being unthinkable, but that doesn't mean we didn't go there in our minds with this new lump dragging up so many dark thoughts from what we've seen happen to other oncology families as well as based on our own previous childhood cancer experience.
Tonight the brilliant Hurrah For Gin summed it up perfectly...only for me I know that work will 'have to give' for a few more weeks as life is utterly bonkers at the moment, cancer scares or otherwise! Tonight's picture shows George tucking into a tub of Marks and Spencer's Rocky Road, two words which could ironically also perfectly describe our lives following his brush with cancer let alone all of us currently living in a global pandemic! That bookmarked with pictures also taken from this very day, both at the start and end of George's cancer treatment, reminds us how far we've come but equally why life can still feel so fragile.
One thing's for sure, we've more than felt your love and can't begin to tell you how much we appreciate it! ❤️ ...things for all of us may feel uncertain and wobbly right now but here's to each of us finding our own balance and manageable boundaries to navigate through these crazy times that are so surreal and are equally unthinkable.
Between us we've got this.
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