I had such a lovely uplifting day yesterday!  I met an old Finnish friend (boyfriend) Jukka whom I had not seen for about 13 years.  It was like no time had passed between us at all.  We are so alike, and still excited about the same things; music, travelling, finding happy balance between work and life.  I totally feel, I do not want to go back to the rat race once I am well again.  It is not worth it, it just makes you ill.  Well, look at me!  I want to go back to work, but do it maybe part time initially, and maybe combine two different jobs.

Jukka, his boyfriend and their two lovely Aussie friends are spending Christmas in London too.  They do not live far, and I would LOVE if we would join forces and have Christmas together, and have a big Finnish, Aussie, Dutch, English Christmas…  I will have to speak to Jukka about this.

I am feeling excited and happy today!

I received another letter from the Royal Marsden this morning.  They send me copies of letters they send to my GP re my clinic appointments.  I just had to share with you what they had written: “Piia will go ahead with cycle 5 of chemotherapy today.  Her last PET done on the 2^nd September 2009 showed a favourable treatment response.  She has a repeat CT scan booked for this week and the plan would be to repeat a PET after 6 cycles at which point we would stop treatment assuming that she has had a complete response.”

The words “stop the treatment” are bringing me so much joy this morning.  I can always dream for a moment…