I'm still in remission after 5 years!

I want to share some good news with my fellow cancer survivors. After five years of living from week to week and CT scan to CT scan, at my recent appointment my oncologist told me that my next CT scan would be in six months instead of three to four months. It’s hard to express what this means to me.
Five years ago, I woke from a nightmare ICU delirium to be told I had Stage 4 lung cancer and that without treatment they gave me 3 to 4 months to live. I was fortunate to have an outstanding oncologist who prescribed a targeted new chemo that had just been approved by the FDA. The first 6 months were horrible. I was struggling with the lingering delirium, with a new cancer diet complicated by kidney issues and the life altering side effects of the chemo (entrectenib) which for me turned out to be weakness, fatigue, diarrhea, mood swings. I still have all of that, plus a new tumor that showed up on last June’s CT scan and turned my summer into an exhausting whirlwind of 200-mile round trips for biopsies, doctor visits, blood draws and ultimately, a second chemo on top of the first one.
The lung cancer is still in remission, the tumor under control and suddenly, amazingly, I have 6 months of my life without CTs and blood draws. 6 months to enjoy summer, to plant and watch the seedlings I started indoors flower, to play with my dogs, relax with my devoted husband. I still have a hard time believing it!
Thank you for listening.