The experience of the past seven months has caused me to subconsciously divide my life into my own personal eras: “B.C.” (Before Cancer) and “A.D.” (After Diagnosis). Somehow, the seven months I’ve had so far in the A.D. period seem like forever compared to the 29 years I had in the B.C. period.
At the same time, there are these little milestones and victories that suddenly take on new importance in the A.D. world. I had such a milestone today: my first haircut since before Christmas last year.
In the grand scheme of things, it’s really such an insignificant event – I’ve had several hundred haircuts in my life to this point and will hopefully have thousands more. That said, in some small but important way, it feels like a huge step in my journey back to normalcy. And normalcy feels really good right now.