10.4.22

It’s all a little surreal. Some times I still have a hard time believing this is happening. I think mainly because it was SO far off my radar. I never in a million years thought I’d be dealing with breast cancer. Aaron summed it up best when he said you don’t seem as upset about having cancer as you are about what life will look like after. He’s probably right. Getting the cancer out is the “easy” part. It’s the dealing with multiple surgeries and what the healing part is going to look like that “scares” me. Not like can’t breathe or function kind of scared. More like will I feel like me again afterwards kind of scared. Plus the healing process doesn’t look fun… Cancer (among other things) changes things. I had a dear friend say as much as you want things to go back to normal they don’t. Things will never be the same again. That doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing it’s just something I need to learn to accept.

Moving forward I would greatly appreciate prayer for the surgery itself. That everything goes well and according to plan. Pray that we have a clear margin (that they get all the cancer), and that it still isn’t in my lymph nodes (it didn’t look like it from my MRI but that was a month ago.) And that the healing process goes well with no complications.

I am definitely looking forward to being CANCER FREE! Once we get this step completed then I can start looking at the next one. I don’t know when the next surgery will be… sounds like maybe 3-4 months or later?? Once my body has had a chance to heal.

Thank you all for your support. It means so much to our family! 🤍

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

If you are a woman please make sure you are doing your monthly self checks! And if you are old enough for a mammogram please don’t put it off! I think breast cancer needs a “rebranding” it isn’t just 60+ year old women that are getting diagnosed with this. I’ve seen a lot of posts of women that are under 30 and had to fight to get a doctor to take them seriously or get a mammogram/biopsy because they are “too young” to have breast cancer. The majority of breast cancer is sporadic, meaning they develop from damage to a person’s genes that occurs by chance after they are born. 

Meanwhile life still goes on… 🙂 We do Easton’s school in our room so that the songs and me talking doesn’t distract the older kids from their school work… Colt likes to be the class clown… I also got all my guys’ hair cut before surgery. (I didn’t get pictures of the big guys 😬) I have two more photo sessions this week (neither of them know I have cancer.) Oh and I squeezed in the kids school pictures tonight! And I’m hoping I can have the house a little more organized before dad and mom come up… 🤣🙂 (I’ll let ya’ll know if I’m successful! 🤣)