Celebrate with me - another milestone!

sugarplum

A mundane and yet momentous occasion - renewing my driver's license today. How well I remember at my 4/06 diagnosis assuming I would expire long before my license did! Part of my healing process has been trying SO HARD to be grateful for every single day I am given to live. Staying connected to these discussion boards has helped me re-focus whenever I start to stray down that dark path (which happens all too often!)

 Thank you everyone for giving me a place to shout this out... 

LindaLou53

YAY!  Congrats Julie! I understand how good it feels to see another year come around and still be NED.  Feelings of amazement and gratitude and the hope that there may actually be a long future ahead!

CELEBRATE!  Remember how strong you are to get to where you are now and don't turn back.  ONWARD!

idaho

CONGRATULATIONS!     Doing the Happy Dance for you!  Tami

apple

drive on!

Moissy

You have a great reason to smile and say "cheese" for your photo ID. Congratulations!!!!

Moissy

Pure

so good to hear this!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

caaclark

Julie-

I thought I was the only person who thought that.  In fact, the last time I renewed my license I was bald but wearing a wig.  Everytime I have to take out that license I think of how I did not care what I looked like because I figured it was my last time to renew anyway.  It is almost time to renew mine too.

Congrats.  I know how hard the after treatment crap is.

Bugs

That's awesome, Julie!  Congrats!

jenn3

Funny how things change for us - bet you were smiling the whole time you waited for that license.  Thanks for sharing.......Congratulations!!!!!!

apple

what's funny is when clerks look at my driver's photo (with hair) and then at me quizzically.

it's been different.

karen1956

Julie...congrats!!!!!  we can do mail in drivers license renewal here in Colorado.  I don't remember when I last renewed my driveres license, but I did it by mail and it was a pretty good picture....and I know it was before BC Dx....but last spring, I lost my drivers license, so I had to get my picture taken and it is awful.....a couple months later, my old license showed up in the mail.  Hate showing my id to anyone!!!

But congrats on a milestone.....our Dx are similar...my 4 year is coming up next month.

Gitane

Julie, Each day that passes teaches us in little ways to allow ourselves to believe we have a future.  I understand so well what it means to have the "mundane" milestones.  I have mine, too, and today is a very big one for me.  Congratulations,  drive on!!!!!

diana50

hi julie

happy dance and yes, SHOUT it out**  YAY**

Leah_S

sugarplum, you go girl! Vroooom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leah

DCMom

Hip Hip Hooray!  License renewal day....and wishes for many more.  Beep Beep!!!!

KerryMac

Yipee! Good for you - keep on truckin'!!

sugarplum

THANKS TO ALL!!! Funny thing about the license picture - I purposely renewed by mail this time because that picture is my last link to the "old me" (straightened blond hair in a pageboy that I wore most of my adult life). Since treatment I've been superstitious enough to keep it super-short, in case it all has to fall out again - AND it grew in dark! If anyone questions whether the license is me, I'll be more than happy to tell them my cancer tale...!

helena67

Congrats!!!

Great that such things can make us so happy!!!

That reminds me, I have to renew my passport in a few months.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bejuce

Congrats, sugarplum! I had to renew my license in October in the middle of my radiation treatments and taking a picture with my wig on.  I remember thinking at the time that I hope I'm there at the DMV 5 years from now to renew it again....  Never thought I'd be so excited about an upcoming DMV  appt in 5 years but such is the life of cancer patients, hoping, praying, and dreaming for time.  Glad to hear you've made it this far! And I hope for many more license renewals for you!

hollyann

Congratulations!.......Now look ahead to the next renewal!.......I actually bought myself a new car to keep me motivated because as long as I still owe on that car I CAN"T expire!...LOL......So happy to hear such great news form you!.......

AnacortesGirl

My renewal came due in August when I was still in the midst of dx and figuring out tx.  I had really wanted to get the WA enhanced DOL so I wouldn't have to remember my passport when we go visit the kids in Vancouver (BC - not the one by you!) but I didn't want to get my picture re-taken with the deer in the headlights look wondering about my future.  So I also opted for the mail renewal.  A couple of times, crossing the border, I've gotten those multiple glances at my picture and me -- you can just read their minds -- so we volunteer the information that I'm going through chemo and it's a wig.  Someday I'll get the enhanced but not till I get my real hair back and I can really look forward.