Category: My Cancer Journey
It will be obvious that this post is not from Crys. It will lack some wittiness, and the well formulated sentences. So, instead of trying to attempt anything close to that… Crys was just rolled back to the ER. The surgery has begun! – Matt…
The results are in from Wednesday’s surgery, and unfortunately it’s not the news we wanted to hear. The surgeon was able to remove 3 lymph nodes, and all three were positive for cancer cells. So while there’s still a lot of questions about what that means, here’s what we do know… *During this week’s mastectomy, they will remove the…
Crys is out of surgery and everything went really well. At home recovering, pretty nauseated from the drugs but should be wearing off soon. Thanks for the prayers and flood of social media encouragement and T-shirt pics! Now on to next Wednesday…
No fancy updates or spiritual revelations today, just a few updated prayer requests as we go into this week. This Wednesday the 16th at 11:30 is my first surgery, they will be removing some lymph nodes to test them. So… 1. Pray that the lymph nodes are clear! 2. Pray that I continue to stay healthy between now and the 23rd. I don’t want to catch a…
When I first began this journey, one of the thoughts I struggled with was “is this somehow my fault”. I wondered if I ate the wrong things or used the wrong cleaners in my kitchen. But most of all, I wondered if my prayers had somehow caused this. When I had previously prayed “God, give me a closer relationship to you” or “God, help me…
We’ve received the surgery dates from our new team of doctors, and we are go for launch! May 23rd is the big day, we’ll be at Texas Presbyterian in Dallas. Once all goes well, we’ll be there for about 3 days. I’ll be having a double mastectomy so the road to recovery and reconstruction after that will take most of the summer…
