Every four months I return to the Royal Marsden for a check up. It is reassurring to know that you're being given the medical once over but returning to the Marsden, a hospital that only deals with cancer, is good for the soul.
I mentioned this to someone recently and when they asked me why I fumbled my answer. So today I am sitting in the outpatients department waiting for my appointment and attempting to answer that question.
It would of been easy for me to continue to live life exactly as I had been doing before cancer, and simply ignore the whole episode. But if I do that then I fear I will of learnt nothing. It's not that I feel the need to change everything, it's just that I've been given a second chance and I mustn't waste it. I must remember the promises I made to myself during darker days. So sitting here now, in a place that deals with cancer every day, I am reminded of what a great chance I now have.
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