“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
― Carl Bard

And that is how I feel now that my business is starting to grow momentum. I am the one creating a new ending to my life, may it be long or short. That is in God’s hands. But for now, I am enjoying every day to its fullest with all its ups and downs of establishing a new business and getting my name “out there”.

I launched my website: dfm-virtualassistant.co.za on Tuesday and have received some favourable response so far. I know that it will still need some tweaking here and there but most of it is done. Thank you to the Angels that helped, you know who you are.

Because I am on Facebook and have my own business website for business, I thought I would keep my blog for personal things. The human side of DFM Virtual Assistant.  What happens in the background and how I am coping with my recovery and having something exciting to focus on.

Towards the end of last year I had to have another operation where I had my mastectomy. I was feeling a lot of pain and my oncologist thought it might be scar tissue that was now impacting onto my chest wall. Needless to say I did not want to go back into theatre but took the bull by the horns and went. The surgeon, one that has a since of humour – can you believe it, found only scar tissue and luckily no cancer cells. Recovery after this surgery was much faster than my mastectomy so that was a positive.

But now I unfortunately have lymphedema in my left arm (lymphedema is a condition that occurs when there is fluid retention in the lymphatic system that also leads to tissue swelling. The swelling is seen mostly in the arms or legs). I have been visiting a physiotherapist for the last 6 weeks and we have managed to get the swelling down but I will have to wear a compression sleeve for the rest of my life. It’s not too bad or ugly and many people don’t even notice that I am wearing one. Now I just have to look after my arm and keep the swelling down.

I sincerely hope that is some way or form my blog can inspire others to see that things can only get better after hearing the dreaded word “cancer”. It is a hard road, there is no denying it but many have successfully travelled along this rocky road and I am going to follow in their footsteps because I know I can.