A Milestone in My Cancer Journey

I am, as of today, untethered from a feeding tube. It was like a security blanket but it needed to go.

Day 84 of treatment

Day 149 of cancer

Day 36 of recovery

BREAKING NEWS

The feed tube is out. With a steady pull at 4 pm Sunday, November 5th, I broke free from my teether of 6 weeks and four days.

It has been a great boon to my well-being and sustained recovery. But, like all good things, too much can be harmful.

There is such a thing as a discomfort zone. It's nig great where one us at, but you're convinced its better than the alternative ahead. The tube was turning into that.

It was familiar and practical but no longer a solution. It had to go, but would I be ready and able to proceed without it? Swallowing wasn't a problem anymore but my co-dependent mindset sure was.

I rediscovered that I could chug Resource 2.0, the super-food supplement, right out of the carton. So calories and nutrition won't suffer without the tube in the short term.

Who needs to sit for two hours, three times a day, on the tube, when I can down the same in less than 10 minutes a session? I can now get on to testing my tolerance for some real food sources-puree of course.

I feel strangely freer and happier as the next stage in my journey is now committed to and fully engaged.

The feed tube door is closed. A new door is opening. But that "bitch of a hallway" between them is now behind me.

#ONWARD

KEN