Here we go...

This post was originally published on Corrina’s Caringbridge site:
https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/corrina

I do not have the words to come even close to expressing my gratitude to each and every one of you. It is beyond me. To feel the overwhelming outpouring and love and support you’ve offered to me so freely has cracked me open. Thank you from the deepest place within me.

The steroids are a monster, but they are working. My physical mobility increases every day and that feels like freedom. I was able to get on my mat for the first time by myself last night (the floor!!) and even though everything is so different - everything - it’s the same. I’m the same.

I’m getting my mind back too as I decrease the drugs. I’m not used to being on anything at all so this has been an extreme shift for all my states.

Radiation starts today. David will be with me. My mom will be with me tomorrow. Chemotherapy has been delayed by insurance. I’m not looking forward to those side effects so I’ve got another day or two to ease into the whole process. One step at a time.

I started reading Love, Medicine, and Miracles by Bernie Siegel. He states that an awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life…You can think you know something, you can think you might be aware. But I wasn’t.

He also shares that “healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one’s life, but the ability to heal has been built into us and into all living things”. I know this.

As I heal, I’m looking forward to actually being able to respond to a simple text. I would love to see you and connect in the coming weeks.

Much love, Corrina