Throughout the day of surgery and the first couple of days afterwards I was posting updates on Facebook, but I realized today that the Facebook prioritization system caused many of you to miss some of the updates. Therefore, so everybody is up to date I will provide a total summary here from the day of… Read More
So let’s just put the jump up and down info. out there first–I get to have chemo today. My white blood count numbers were actually UP today. Yall–say what???? The doctors were a little surprised. Now–not like amazingly higher–but higher is higher and usually they get lower every week.Next on the list of great news–my… Read More
We met with our gynecology surgeon today. He walked into our room, introduced himself, and said, “Thank you for the work you do for our Lord in Honduras. I’m sorry we are having to meet for these reasons.” What a great first impression he made with us.He then started asking a LOT of questions, and… Read More
Yesterday was full of fun pictures posted by friends and family all focused on the eclipse–and we tried to see it also, but our south Georgia weather just did not cooperate. Our family watched it on TV. But yesterday also marked the day that my sweet sister-in-law Lisa went to live with Jesus in Heaven.… Read More
Praising God this morning! The Pet Scan did not show the cancer in any “new” places. Only in the same areas that we have previously been told about. Stop right now and let’s give a little shout out!!! The biopsy confirmed that we definitely have ovarian type cancer. The only changes we will be making… Read More
Finished chemo #4 with my cousin Charlene Bonn. Dr. Kasi came in and said he talked to the pathologist last night about the biopsy. He said they are still leaning towards ovarian cancer. He also said he thought we would probably do chemo for about 6 months. (With surgery somewhere in the mix.) He also… Read More
One of the hardest things I have ever faced in life is watching those that I love the most suffer. It is human nature to try to understand it, but it is so often not understandable. Sometimes we may get a glimpse of some of the reasons in the future, but often we never know.… Read More
I promised I would try to be “real” here throughout this journey, so here it goes–some truth about the side effects of chemo. Saturday was a gift, I felt good–the tiredness had not kicked in, we went on a date . . . It was a fabulous day. Then came Sunday morning. I took my… Read More
We had a great visit at Mayo today. I had blood drawn today and thankfully I am in the normal ranges for all of my blood work. Which is great because it means my immunity is still high enough to fight. So day #3 of chemo tomorrow. We are also doing the happy dance–and… Read More
I’ve made it through the 2nd chemo treatment with simple tiredness. What wonderful grace and mercy I am experiencing at this moment. So celebrate with me–I am taking the time any chance I get.What we have been up to:Over the weekend we celebrated my dad’s 75th birthday. He turned 75 on July 5th, and… Read More
