Law Students

The Home Stretch

Another semester is over and I am busy preparing for finals now. It feels much different than the end of last semester. When I was reviewing my notes in preparation for finals last semester, I didn?t even remember covering certain subjects. I?m sure it was a combination of the chemo and of having so much going on during the semester. This time it feels like the end of the semester normally does?I remember most of what we talked about, it?s just a matter of synthesizing it all into an outline that makes sense. I hope that the exams themselves will be easier for me than they were last semester, as well.

The beginning of this month marked six months since my last chemo treatment. For a long time, I found myself telling people, when it came up in conversation, that I had finished chemo on November 1st. Now, when it comes up, I tell people that my last treatment was six months ago. It is a subtle but interesting mental shift?kind of like when you move from telling people your child?s age in months to her age in years. In just a few days, I will be able be able to tell people that I have been cancer-free for one year. (I am counting from the day I had the lumpectomy since that is the day that it was actually removed.) In some ways it feels as if it has been years and years since I had cancer, and at the same time it seems all too recent.

I will be celebrating Mother?s Day this year by running in this race with my family and some friends of ours. I hope to make it our new family Mother?s Day tradition.

Full post as published by The Merits of the Case on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).