NED ladies: take advantage of remission to see your DENTIST

We are celebrating so many new NED announcements, which is wonderful! I just wanted to suggest that all of you ladies who were just given at least 3 lovely months of no treatments: call your dentists for appointments. Many of us have to cancel routine 6-month teeth cleanings when we go into chemo. It's a good idea to immediately, upon getting the good news of NED, to get appointments for any of the 'routine' wellness checks and health maintenance that you may have had to put off. If you would have had a colonoscopy this year had you not gotten cancer, DO that. If you haven't had a mammogram in the past 12 months, DO that. During each of my remissions, as short as they were, I was able to get my teeth cleaned and checked. In fact, each remission I went ahead and treated myself to a cosmetic teeth WHITENING. (Nothing like a dazzling smile to make bald beautiful! HA!)

I hope that your remissions stretch on and on. But, just in case, get any routine or needed dental work done. I also booked a great VACATION as soon as I got my NED news each time, and hope that all of you treat yourselves to something especially fun to celebrate.

I leave tomorrow for the 1st vacation I've attempted while I am simultaneously getting chemo, a week at the beach with my extended family. I feel pretty good, and it's nice to know that you can always take a week off of treatment to get away if you want to. But PLEASE take advantage of your remissions, when you are again feeling your best, to LIVE LARGE! Live full out as if these 3 months may be all you have, ...then when your next tests show you NED again, live THOSE 3 months full-steam-ahead,... and then the NEXT 3 months of "NED-ness", do it again! Everyone should live this way! I'll post again when I get back from the beach, 7/10! (That's another good thing to remember: life can still be wonderful even if you are in treatment!)