A new era...

It won't leap past us
The incredible is approaching from over there
It won't leap past us
We won't be left in a dark vale
To watch it go

 The incredible is approaching from over there

 This time
It won't leap past us
Won't be left no
It won't leap past us

This time

A woman transformed into twinkling stars, headlines, headlines
No going home tonight, no going home tonight
The wrath of angels
 

 

David Gray The Incredible

 

 

The incredible did not leap past us and we laid my mum to rest on Wednesday morning. She is now indeed twinkling stars.

 

It has been the hardest two weeks of my life and yet as always through the heartache, joy and miracles have shone through. The day after my mum died I was telephoned by my surgeon and told that he was willing to do my surgery and that I will be operated on this coming week, the 20th of August. 2 days after my birthday and 2 weeks after my mum's death. What a month August has been. It will be one to remember and will always hold very special memories. I am in awe of what life can offer. It is approaching the 2nd anniversary of my terminal diagnosis and no one could have imagined that today I would be preparing to have the only remaining evident piece of cancer removed from my body. I truly am grateful. In some respects its seems so so sad that it comes at this time when my mum isn't here to see it. However, I have to believe that she knows exactly what is going on and that she is smiling upon it all. She found her own peace, safe in the knowledge that I had learned to live a different kind of life, not in spite of, but because of my cancer (she was an avid follower of this blog and it hurts to know that she wont be reading it any more and telling me what she thinks) and that it helped me grow as a person. Without my diagnosis I would not be the person that I am today and now there seems to be hope on the horizon for me. I am so lucky to be, in the truest sense, given a second chance. I am determined to make it worthwhile.