Category: Health Updates

Thoughts During Chemotherapy

I sit here writing this post during my first chemotherapy treatment on this Friday morning. I can’t say it enough, thank you everyone for so much support – as I said in my last post, we can’t run this race alone. We have been shown an overwhelming generosity to rally around us to help with whatever is necessary, and the community of support from our friends…

The Next Season

I didn’t realize it, but in the last week or so, we’ve entered into a new season. We transitioned from the “surgery recovery” season and started moving into the “prepare for chemo” season. We’ve had such a barrage of appointments, tests, phone calls, etc that we quietly moved into a survival mode that feels like the beginning again, when we…

Before and After

Wow, 2 weeks since my last post? It’s because we’ve been BUSY! Since FC Kids Camp was the last two weeks and we didn’t get to be part of it this year with everything going on, we decided to make a trip out to Allaso Ranch each week so we could still play and cheer on our friends (ahem, Blue Team), and boy, was…

The Update I Didn’t Want to Post

I thank everyone who has been praying for me over the last several days, and for those of you intuitive enough to check in for lack of a Caring Bridge update after Friday’s 3pm appointment, you may have guessed that Friday did not quite go as we had hoped. Unfortunately, we heard just about everything we did not want to hear. The fact that cancer cells were found…

Good News/Bad News/Pray for Friday

I’m sure you remember from previous posts that we’ve already removed three lymph nodes which were all found positive for cancer cells, and if four or more are found to be positive, then it means radiation is required. So last night we received the final pathology report from the surgery. They had removed 10 more lymph nodes during the mastectomy, and it turns out there was…

A Bit of Good News

I’m happy to share that last night, the doctor called with a bit of the good news we’ve been praying for! As they are working on analyzing all the tissue they removed, some of the pathology reports have come back so my doctor wanted to share before the weekend (cuz she’s the best!). Good news #1: Turned out the mass was measured to be…