Spontaneous Sunshine
The unfiltered musings of a young woman fighting for her life
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Just Another Day
And we’re off! For all the preparations (and little bit of drama mixed in), today seems like any other day. I’m just fitting in chemo amongst my other errands like it’s no big deal. Chemo is just going to be part of my new normal. I’m not going to stress about it. Cancer, however, will…
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Long Days, Early Flights & My Very Own Knight
Last week, Caleb and I ventured to Texas to get clearance to start chemotherapy. Hurricane Beryl had other plans, unfortunately. Our flight into TX on Sunday were cancelled and rescheduled for Tuesday, getting us there after my very last scheduled appointment. We knew there was a chance that my appointments would be cancelled due to…
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Nothing Is Impossible
Happy 4th of July everyone! I hope you’re all having a wonderful holiday. It’s a holiday that I’m making sure to really celebrate because it also feels a little melancholy for me this year; this is the last holiday I’ll be celebrating whilst feeling “normal” and healthy for a while. Chemotherapy will be starting on…
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Results & Summer Vacation
Life (especially with kids) sure has a way of helping you forget about some of the more unpleasant things in the world. Cancer seems almost like a distant memory now that I’m home. My days have been filled with hugs and giggles and marble run engineering. If it weren’t for the incisions and my short…
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🎶Sweet Home Clifton Park🎶
I don’t have any updates or results from the tests/scans. I’m just here to say…IT FEELS INCREDIBLE TO BE HOME! Those three and a half weeks felt much longer than they should have. But I’m home with my babies and feeling pretty great considering I look a bit like Frankenstein’s monster! I am so grateful…
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Can’t Keep A Warrior Down
There never seems to be a dull moment in my life these days, but I guess when you’re fighting for your life against an enemy you can’t see, it makes sense. These less than dull moments just seem harder when I’m homesick. We’ve already rescheduled flights home once. It appears we may have to do…
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Happy Wife, Happy Life
As of yesterday, all my drains are out and I’m feeling much less uncomfortable! And, even better than that, my sarcoma surgeon shared the pathology results from the mastectomy: NEGATIVE MARGINS! She was able to remove any cancer that remained. A small tumor remained from my original lumpectomy in September. The “post-surgical changes” everyone was…
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Phase 3: COMPLETE
Hello everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t updated you all sooner. I’ve been doing a lot of sleeping. The surgery went very well. The surgeons were able to complete the mastectomy as well as the reconstruction. Results from pathology will take about a week to come back. The plastic surgeon decided not to perform the reduction…
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Phase 3
Today is surgery day! The plan has changed a bit. Due to changes from radiation, my surgeon would prefer to only do the mastectomy and reconstruction and wait to operate on the other breast. She thinks the results will be better in the long run. This does, however, mean that another surgery is in my…
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Pre-Celebration
It feels so strange to be back here, navigating the halls of this enormous hospital. I didn’t realize how normal the last five weeks have felt, how not-like-a-cancer-patient I felt. But, laying in the MRI machine yesterday, reality came crashing back down like a giant wave. It cascaded over me, nearly bringing me to tears.…
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