Spring

Today I walked to the lab to get my blood drawn. I do this ever quarter for testing for thyroid cells, which I have  none to date. The key to thyroid cancer is to get to the 5 year mark. This is my 4th year. The walk was very windy, and I felt very tired walking, so weak and strange, but then I saw my first dogwood of the season and it helped me out. Then the phlebotomist and I were chatting and it turns out her best friend had brain surgery on Thursday, and now one of her eyes doesn't work, this reminded me why I am grateful and fortunate that my surgery went very well, 10-15% of patients wind up with a problem like no speech, vision issues etc.

So on the way back home I took a picture of that dogwood, just as a reminder to myself that I am lucky.