Callie, Interrupted

I am officially in remission as of August 8th!!!!!! Since then, my life has begun to inch back to normal. Or at least, a new normal. I returned to school this year, participated in the school play, am hanging out with friends, and working on college applications. Everything is as it  should be, and most of the time I feel like I'm a typical high schooler. There are definitely some moments, though, when I'm walking in the hallway or doing my homework and I stop and think about how radically different my life is now compared with just a few months ago, and all that happened for me to get here. It's hard to look at pictures from the spring and see how pale I was. It's hard to remember what it felt like to get chemo. It's hard to believe that this all even happened, that it was real. I barely ever even use the word "cancer".  It's so easy to block it out entirely and go on with my daily life, and I kind of did that for the first month and a half of this