Just know up front - this post will likely not be well written. It’s raw - real.
The last week of February I discovered a lump in my left breast. I was scheduled for a mammogram and ultrasound very quickly and had a biopsy that included one lymph node the following day. While I waited on results, the kids and I were blessed to spend four days in Orange Beach, Alabama for Spring Break. When we planned this trip, I didn’t know how much I would need it. The sea soothes my soul!
I received the call just as we were coming back in to town letting me know that the pathology report showed that it was Invasive Ductal Carcinoma and that the one axillary lymph node tested positive.
I thought I was prepared. I was not! My PCP, whom I love dearly, worked tirelessly for two days to get referrals in the works to MD Anderson and Methodist in The Woodlands. I will have my first appointment with an oncologist on Monday, March 29.
Today the kids and I are fine - yes Janie and Christine and many others - we are fine. Many of you who know me well know that I always say I’m fine. But right now we really are. We are all staying positive and living life normally. We’ve traveled this cancer road before and have faith that the Lord will heal me of this awful disease. We have a large, amazing support system, and I know I will need their/your help has things progress.
Prayer requests for now are that the cancer has not spread any further than where we currently know it to be and that we all remain positive and lean on the Lord and those who are walking this road with us.
This verse was so important to all of us in the two years Tim battled cancer, and now I find myself holding onto it again.
But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. James 1:6
