Waiting. I feel like so much of this journey has been waiting. Waiting for follow up appointments, waiting on tests, waiting on test results, waiting for more appointments, more test results, waiting on phone calls from doctors, waiting to start treatment, waiting for the side effects to kick in, waiting for my hair to fall out, waiting for the vomiting to start, waiting for the next round... are you tired of reading that word yet?Waiting. Not so patiently. I'd be lying if I said it didn't get the best of me some days. I compare it to the feeling you get when a roller coaster is about to reach its peak.. you know, right before the fall. Except you just stall right there at that moment. Frozen. Or being stuck in an elevator with a broken button and there's no way out. Anxiety creeps in and every second feels like an eternity. Sometimes I look at my medication and read the word "chemotherapy" and simply just can't believe this is something I am dealing with. Th...
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