One year ago...

One year ago a very close friend finished a long course of radiation treatments for Breast Cancer. Today I am happy to know that the treatment worked and she is still cancer free. If you have ever had a friend, relative or yourself gone through this, you will understand the pain and anguish that you feel watching a person you care for go through so much. Radiation treatments do not cause the out-ward physical changes that Chemotherapy cause. No loss of hair, though there are changes, not extreme loss in weight, but the radiation takes a heavy toil in any case. I have never felt so helpless in watching my best friend go through such a hard treatment. There was so much at stake, more for her than me, but I was so scared to loss her. It has been a year since she told me the cancer was gone, I hope I never hear it has returned...