I am thankful for the doctors, radiologists, nurse practitioners, nurses, and Any and All staff who have touched my life since May at TPMG, “Big Riverside,” Walter Reed, Rappahannock General, The Cancer Center and Mathews Medical Center. We all blessed to have these facilities near us. I love you all.

I am extremely thankful for my home health care nurses, physical therapist, and occupational therapist. I was blessed by your visits and I love you all. I appreciate all that you did to get me back on my feet especially after hitting the garage floor and having to have Rusty and Theresa help Gary get me in the house and bed on my disastrous first day home.

We are all so thankful that our dear friend, Lou Ann, started a meal train with many friends and neighbors that provides us with a meal on Tuesday night that lasts through Wednesday. We are truly grateful. Many individuals are not on that list, but bring us a meal or treat when they feel the need. We are thankful to each of you.

Simple things mean a lot on any given day. From a “prayer peacock” from a little boy, Cal, next door, to flowers, mums, balloons, cards, texts, phone calls, face times, short visits, and Christians singing hymns in our front yard. How blessed are we?

After getting a chemo port put in at Riverside, three OR nurses went one at a time, to their lockers and gave me a cute scrub hat from their collections to use when I lost my hair. They touched our lives forever.

I have Cancer but it does not have me. I will end on this note: ladies, ask your doctor about a simple blood test for Ovarian Cancer. It might help you, your mothers, your daughters, granddaughters, sisters, and nieces. Don’t let 46 years of perfect Pap tests and mammograms lull you into a false sense of security. ASK!

I am thankful and blessed. With my loving husband and children, family and the support staff that I have, how can I be anything else?

Robin M. Sadler
Mathews, Va.