Category: Cancer Journey

Follow me on my cancer journey, from the beginning all the way to the newest updates. It’s been a wild ride so far. Join me and my family as we navigate through fear, hopes, the medical system and simply ever day living. God has already been gracious to us and continues to bless us. You will find me often referring back and thanking Him for simply being alive still.

Cancer is never a word you want to hear from your doctors. Especially when you are in your mid 20’s. However knowing what I know now, I also understand that I was given a blessing in disguise. Would I have chosen this path for me and my family? No. Definitely not, but I wouldn’t be the person I am today without the diagnosis.

I’m sure not all cancer patients are as fortunate as me. Many don’t even make it to the one year mark. I understand that I am blessed in this unfortunate turn of events since my cancer is slow growing. Know that if you are also fighting cancer, I am praying for you.

Getting… Unstuck

A lot as happened since my last post. I am getting more and more “unstuck”. Yet, nothing really has happened until just this last week. I should’ve learned by now that life throws you curve balls when you least expect them. It is still almost like a shock every time we get one of those […]

Stuck

I feel STUCK! I think that is the best way to describe my current state in one word… stuck. In every aspect of my life right now I feel in one way or another stuck. Let me explain what I mean by that. I want to be very open and honest, not all of it […]

Devastating News

Follow up post radiation treatments On November 8, 2016 I had my follow up appointment with Dr. J. to get the news how everything looks post radiation. The next day I was supposed to fly out to Toronto, meet up with Annika and go to Disney World. Jeff was working that day. He talked to […]

Amazing Recovery

All right, where do I even begin? It has been a while sine my last blog update. I decided to make this into a few different post. That way I can give a better overview over the last month and a half. When I updated this page last, I was just finishing radiation and was […]

Home Stretch – Almost done

ONLY 5 TREATMENTS LEFT!!! You can’t imagine how happy I am that I am almost done. That we are getting to the end of this part of my journey. The last couple weeks have been getting progressively worse in the sense of side effects. Taste Last time I had updated, I had mentioned my taste […]

First week of radiation treatments done

Cross Cancer appointments I had a total of 7 radiation treatments over the last week and a bit. I started on Thursday August 25, 2016. Jeff took the day off so he could take me to my first appointment. Since he is at the Cross Cancer Institute very often for work, he knows his way […]