Cancer Survivor Day

Today was cancer survivor day and it’s been a good day. It’s also far passed time for an update for all of you. 

About 3 weeks ago now Charlotte got some surprise last minute news. Her battle against breast cancer was changing phases again.  

• Mastectomy ✓
• Chemotherapy ✓ 
• Radiation  now ✓

The radiation treatments came to an end on May 20th.  It was a week earlier than expected but that’s a good kind of surprise. She got to "ring the bell" while other patients, staff, nurses and all watched. 

Since then life has been getting back to something like normal. As much as being off work, worrying about next steps, and trying to avoid a pandemic is normal that is. 

So, all that being said - thank you all. Charlotte felt loved, supported, and the number of kindnesses you all showed her, us, is beyond amazing. 

From here out the sprint goes into marathon mode.  There will be pils. There will be scans. There will be anxious days waiting on results. There will be good days. There will likely still be bad days. But there will also be memories of all kindness our friends, families, and even complete strangers showed.  

So from here on out we’ll do our best to repay that generostiy to other. First, I’ll be riding in Pelotonia this year to raise some money for cancer research at the center that I am so grateful to - The Ohio State University James Cancer Center. From there on we’ll both do our best to repay this kindness daily. 

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