Our warrior.

 I have no idea what day we’re at now since the initial diagnosis, and I have no idea how we’ve made this our ‘new normal’ so quickly. 

We’re no longer sobbing helplessly. I’m no longer in a whirl of fear and despair. We’re now getting on with it. 

It was a bleak week. The days were overcast and dull. Our life on hold. On the day of our consultation with our chosen oncologist at The Cromwell Hospital we feared that he wouldn’t take us on. We thought we’d be turned away and left on our own. We sat in the Genesis suite waiting.  

Then...out he bounced. Introducing himself, I knew we’d made the right choice, or maybe the right choice had been made for us. He wasn’t dressed how we’d expected. Not suited and booted in his saville row suit, but casually in jeans and trainers. He was as young as I’d expected, but with an energy and an aura I knew was well placed. We couldn’t see his face as it was covered with the obligatory mask, but Mike said later, that his eyes were shinning...and they were! 

We sat in his consulting room and went through the very short history. He looked at the paperwork we’d sent and said it was perfectly treatable. He would take Mike on and he was now our oncologist and that he would organise the CT/Pet scans and MRI’s. There were no sad eyes, and no compassionate pauses. Mike sobbed. He needed to hear that something could be done and he knew we had our warrior. 

The relief was overwhelming. It was as if a huge rock had been lifted and we could see some light. We left far lighter than when we arrived. As we left the hospital, the sun was shinning and I could see our son waiting. He face was etched with stress, his shoulders stiff and hunched but when he saw us smiling those shoulders dropped and he knew something good had happened. And it had. 

The cancer is still there, and I know we’ll have hard days ahead, but we have someone who has our mindset,  someone who wants to power through and someone who’s a ‘can do’! 

In the  meantime, we were still awaiting a call from the original consultant.