I’m alive and kicking after getting out of my dark hole for the 5th time! After my operation in November and all the swelling, pumping, swelling again, pumping once more… that followed the removal of 10 of my lymph nodes, I had to keep a little bit of toilet paper on my oozing scars to prevent them from staining my bra. The blood on one of these bits of paper dried in a surprising shape. So I framed it up as a souvenir…