Then I will finish the dying process. Pending the possibility of a study drug buying me a bit more life.
It's a weird kind of limbo. I live in a two-month box. Every two months, I get to find out if I climb into another box, or if I'm starting the slide into death. My oncologist cautiously opines that because I'm responding so well to the Regorafenib, I may have a number of those two-month boxes ahead of me.
But still, it's a wall of death every time.
And like so much about terminal cancer, this makes me feel crazy.
I can't really plan very far ahead. I can't really look to what will happen next, beyond the two-month box. Everything I want to do has to fit into these eight-week cycles. Hope is toxic, and the future is all too certain. We lost this war last spring, but the battles go on.
The irony is I could be here having these same conversations with myself in 2015. Or just as possible, I could be gasping out my final good-byes early next spring. We don't know. I don't know.
It's just a box. The one I live in. I have measured out my life with CT scans; I know the voices dying with a dying fall.
God, this is a long, slow fall to oblivion.