Thursday April 14 2011- Day 101

My roommate wakes me up early. He has rented a car that has to be back by 8:30 am so we have to get out the door a little earlier. I take a few minutes to send a few pix to him and get out the bed. We rush to get ready and out the door. Unfortunately when we get to the car the battery is dead and we are unable to start the car. We go back in the house and call Zipcar who sends out roadside assistance. In the meantime I decide to go hop on the bus. As I board the bus roadside assistance pulls up. I call my roommate and tell him to pick me up from the subway station. It takes another half hour for roadside assistance to get the car running and my roommate to show up. By now we are very late. I text my co-workers to let them know. I get to the office building and decide to get some breakfast before I head up. I get in my office by 9:40. He calls me as I walk in the door and I tell him what happens and after he laughs we talk about him coming to visit and a plane ticket. After we get off the phone I start my morning. Lunch time rolls around and I decide to lay down and take a nap. I get back to my desk and around 2:42 pm my phone rings. It is a GW Hosp number so I answer it. It's Dr. McSwain. She asks me if I'm free to talk. I tell her yes. She proceeds to tell me that my pathology report is in and that I am cancer free. I let out a scream and start to cry. She asks if I'm ok and I tell her yes that she's made my whole week month year day weekend. She says ok and tells me the test on the lymph nodes came back negative as well so the cancer has not spread. That I am now completely done treatment. I will have my follow up with her on Tues and we will go over everything but that is it. I keep crying as she talks and I hang up the phone. I tell my co-worker Lauren who happens to be next to me at the time. I call my dad and as the phone rings I tell my co-worker Isabelle which my dad catches when he answers as I'm telling her. We both celebrate. I call him and let him know and he keeps repeating "I told you I told you." I tell him I love him and he says the same and we hang up. I call my sister in law Carla who prays over me and then my cousin Lisa who wants to throw a party. I call my roommate and tell him and he's very happy..he has been the one who has seen the worst of what I've had to go through these last few months so I know he is the happiest. I call my sister in law May and then my brother James calls and I let him know too. I post a message on Facebook and Twitter and send text to everyone in my phone. My phone goes off the rest of the evening with congratulatory text and phone calls and folks reply to my messages on Facebook & Twitter. I want to go out and celebrate that night but my breast starts to hurt so I lay down and rest. My roommate gets dinner and I eat and then take some percocet. I fall asleep til he makes me get up and go lay in my bed. I sleep the most peaceful I have in a long time. I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders and a light enter into my life that had been missing for a long time. It is the happiest I have been in a very long time.