Hello! I am Melanie. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, friend, and a person living with cancer. Welcome to my blog: Between the Scans. When I started this blog, I was subject to quarterly scans. I am thrilled to say that for the last two years, I have been on an annual schedule and continue to show no evidence of disease. However, I will not forget from what I have been spared, and will continue to cherish each day! Save for the first few posts, my blog has very little to do with cancer. Rather, it is about life: the beautiful, fun, hard, mundane days.
From the Blog: Blessed
Among the four of us, ten sons raised to adulthood. By the soft, misty light on what had been a rainy spring South Carolina day, we sit catching up on time passed since we last saw each other, reflecting on memories of our friendships, and complimenting each other on our glasses, relatively new accessories for us fifty-somethings. As the conversation meanders, I find myself vividly seeing the years passed, almost like an out of body experience. I see us here, now, at this lovely restaurant set among the hundreds of years old, Spanish moss-draped oak trees, ordering from a sophisticated foodie-focused menu. All this in juxtaposition to the days when our paths first crossed, babes in arms. I think of the very moment I met each of these women. The conversations we had over hot coffee turned cold while we stood watch over our boys playing outside on a winter day. Tears shared when we felt our mothering wasn’t enough to protect or guide them. Stolen moments away for a spring tea or garden show.
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