4.10.23

And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Matthew 28:5-6

I hope you all had a happy and blessed Easter! It was a little extra special this year, it also happened to be my birthday. The last time Easter was on April 9th was in 1950! I can normally skate by undetected but this year a little birdie made sure everyone in church knew. haha! Suffice to say, I was well loved on Sunday! 💗

Tomorrow marks two weeks since my last chemo!! 😀 Dr. Naqvi said that my hair should start growing back around two weeks after my last dose. He was pretty spot on when he said I would start loosing my hair so I am going to go out on a limb and say he’s probably going to be pretty close on this one too. My sisters are taking bets on how fast it will grow and what it will look like when it comes in. Anyone else want in on the action?? 🤣

Thursday I talked to my nurse navigator about setting up the radiation consult in Madison. We are hoping to do that as soon as possible via zoom. As I wait for a call I’m praying for wisdom for my doctors (as well as Aaron and I). Specifically that the Holy Spirit would lead the doctors in their recommendations for me. On a slightly different note, I have a zoom consultation about reconstruction with an out of state doctor later this month. You can also pray that goes well. And last but not least, I’m still dealing with some swelling in my ankle. As my energy levels go up I’m more active. I think I may have just been on it too much, it got kind of big last night. I put it up and iced it for awhile and by this morning it was looking more normal but the top of my foot felt like I had a cramp in it for part of the day. Prayers that it would just kind of take care of itself and not swell any more would be greatly appreciated! I’m hoping as I get the chemo out of my system little things like that will go away. 🙂

I am excited to let ya’ll know my port is coming out on Wednesday!!! I. can’t. wait. Most nights when I lay down I end up noticing it at some point. It tends to feel like I have a bruise there. Or when I go to pick up Colton, it doesn’t happen every time, and he bumps me just right same thing: it will feel like I’m bruised. I have to go to the hospital to have it taken out, but it sounds like they just numb the area and pull it out! 😳🙂

Unless something changes drastically I don’t think you’ll be seeing me in your inbox as much. No news is good news, right? I will definitely make sure to keep you updated on what we find out and then decide on about radiation. Things will hopefully slow down for a little bit now and we can take the time to recoup and catch our breath. It’s been go, go, go since being diagnosed back in September. After the radiation decision has been made, we will start planning for the reconstruction. I just want to thank you all again for your words of encouragement and prayers. I know I wouldn’t have done as well as I did through all of this if it wasn’t for everyone lifting me in prayer. ❤️

The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

James 5:16b

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I thought there was going to be more when we started out! Not too bad for 5 months of chemo. 🙂