I have completed my 8th and final cycle of chemo. It was a challenging week of treatment, but it's all finally over. In a lot of ways my final week felt the same for me as it did when I completed chemo five years ago. I felt happy to be done with chemo and all of its side effects, but at the same time I felt anxious about losing my chemo "safety net." I was never able to figure this chemo out so I was probably more happy to be done with it this time. As much as I hate having to do chemo I know that is the only thing keeping the cancer from coming back. I just have to trust that the chemo did it's job now and that is a difficult challenge for me. Unlike last time I rang the bell at the end of my treatment. For those of you unfamiliar with this, it is a tradition for a cancer patient to ring a bell on their final day of chemo. I didn't ring the bell last time because I felt it was foolish to celebrate too early. Since then I have endured two recurrences requirin...