A very hard year...

I'm excited to say that today is my mom's final chemo treatment! I am so overcome with happiness to close this chapter of the battle. It has been a very difficult year for me - I was diagnosed with a pre-cancerous lesion on my cervix last fall(had surgery to remove it)and earlier this year my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and my sister-in-law with thyroid cancer. OY VEY! One thing after the next. So many surgeries, biopsies, follow-ups, treatments, it has been quite an overwhelming year for my entire family. I wrote this poem during a particularly hard day and I wanted to share it with you all in case some of you are feeling the same way.

Cancer is our cancer
Haunting, waiting, lurking
Pervading our thoughts
Numbing our happiness

Where did you come from?
Won't you go back
We are perfectly healthy
Stop tellins us we're not

We've lost control
Our greatest fear
So many anxieties, so many tears

Cancer is our cancer
You've invaded our body
You've invaded our mind
So perfect was life before you came through

Biopsies, treatments, surgeries, doctors
Waiting for the day when it all goes away
When we are normal again.
What is normal again?