I have much to be thankful for this year - I have survived yet another year, it appears that my immunotherapy has been successful in that I have been cancer free for over a year and a half, the reaction which I had to the immunotherapy seems to have settled down and I am no longer in constant pain from my joints, my mobility has returned to very nearly 100% of what it was previously, and I am still surrounded by my family.

Yes, not everything has gone well, but I am not complaining. As we approach another holiday season, my life could be so much worse than it is - and that is definitely something to be thankful for.

I look around myself every day and it takes but a moment for me to realize just how blessed I truly am.

I also want to give thanks to all of my friends here on BCTS. Were it not for those that I have been priveleged to meet here and to call friends, I would not have survived the past six or seven years. To all my friends here, both those who are still present and those who have passed on, I give thanks. For having known you all has made me a better person and the woman I am today.

Most of all, I am thinking of those I have lost and I give thanks for the privilege of having known them. And for my brothers in arms, save me a seat at the bar for I will be along soon enough. But not just yet - I still have things to do before I go.