With my recent good news of clear scans, I’m trying to get back to “normal.” However, resuming a normal routine is not as easy as it sounds, at least for me.

When you’re first diagnosed with cancer, all you want to have is your normal routine, even though in reality, your life is anything but routine or normal. Gradually, cancer sucks you into its world, a world of hospitals, doctors, appointments, treatment options, overwhelming information to process, and difficult decisions to make. Your routine is definitely disrupted.

By the time you get through surgery, any follow-up treatments, and you’re into recovery and received the blessing of great news, it takes a while to re-engage and to realize the doctor visits are a little less frequent and there are no more treatment decisions to make. You can return to your real life, to have control again (although we all know the God is the one in control.)

So, what do I do from here? How can you go back to being normal when nothing feels normal anymore? Trust me, this isn’t a complaint. It’s a good issue to have. And I’m slowly re-engaging. It just feels strange sometimes to be “normal” again and try to find that routine of life.

I can’t help but think: Now, that I’ve gone through all this cancer stuff, how do I spend the rest of my life?

God is in control.

Keep on truckin’ everyone!