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So much so that I did very little for nearly three months of recovery following a much more extensive surgery than I’ve ever had before. With an eight-inch vertical incision in my abdomen, future surgeries are likely to be more complicated and there seems little doubt that I will keep needing surgery as recurrences take place pretty regularly every 3-4 years. Even if I am never done with cancer, I will find a way to live with it knowing that I may have cancer, but it doesn’t have me. The universe provided for my needs in so many spectacular ways and through so many generous people including time in a gorgeous home and a mountain condo for my parents and I, a sunny reading spot in a relaxing back yard and even a week-long stay on a converted tug boat in the Columbia River.

I have written many cancerversary blogs over the past twelve years since I was diagnosed, and sometimes I feel as if I’ve processed everything there is to process about my cancer experience and said all there is to say, but of course that’s not true because we are never really done with cancer. I feel like I’m at some sort of crossroads, and I’m not sure which direction I’m headed. Another reason we never really leave cancer behind is that the more immersed we become in the cancer community, the more of its members we get to know and care about. Gavin Robertson founded Cancer Cooperative http://www.cancercooperative.organd Coach Cancer to spread the power of coaching, which made such a difference for him, to as many people as he could.