Living Proof

I have just finished watching the movie Living Proof about how Dr. Dennis Slamon developed Herceptin. It has just occurred to me that a decade ago, before Herceptin, my HER2 positive cancer would have been a death sentence. It just seems a little strange to me that until this moment, I never really realized what my "aggressive" cancer meant. I knew that recurrence was high with this type of cancer but I never really thought that it could kill me.

But because Dr. Slamon never gave up, Herceptin was born, and I get a chance to live. I have so many people to thank for my life ... it just seems to be a debt I will never be able to repay. All I can promise is that I will not waste my life ... I will live it the best way I know how, and I will always be grateful to the many people who have given me this second chance.

And now I finally understand why every single doctor who has looked at the size of my tumor and then at the HER2 positive nature of the cancer has been amazed that it was discovered so quickly. I see the hand of God in this.

I am deeply grateful and very humbled.