In conversation with my friend in Phoenix, who recently had a radical prostatectomy, he noted he was going to be able to return to working out within the next week or two. That's a big deal, a very big deal!
Milestones, as I've noted before, are important...and the more one is able to return to the routines that existed before surgery, the more one recognizes life is returning to normal.
No longer does one have to concentrate on recovery...it just continues to happen. Those activities of daily living that recently consumed time and thought once again become simply activities.
In my own case, I no longer think with every step how fortunate I am as I run in the morning...I just run. It's not that I am not grateful for my remarkable recovery, I am indeed. But I have returned to my life much as it was lived before cancer...and it feels, well, normal. Has it changed? Without question...but it's once again what I recognize as my life.
And life is good.
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