my experience with breast cancer and other life events
Amy and Gilead
True Breast Cancer Awareness
November 2010
January 2008
A Little History
I was diagnosed with stage III, metastatic breast cancer in October 2008. At about the same time, we discovered I was pregnant. Initially, the prognosis was bleak, but after detailed analysis of the cancer, successful surgery, and treatments, the picture brightened considerably. I completed nine rounds of chemotherapy, twenty-five radiation treatments, and took Tamoxifen until October 2010.
After the fifth round of chemotherapy and various other treatments and tests, Gilead Victor was born six weeks early on Mother's Day, 2009. He is a healthy littly guy and a joy to us all.
In October 2010, tests showed that the cancer had returned in my liver and bones. This is now considered stage IV, terminal cancer.
Jon and I have lived in Colorado since 1997. We have seven children - four boys and three girls.
After the fifth round of chemotherapy and various other treatments and tests, Gilead Victor was born six weeks early on Mother's Day, 2009. He is a healthy littly guy and a joy to us all.
In October 2010, tests showed that the cancer had returned in my liver and bones. This is now considered stage IV, terminal cancer.
Jon and I have lived in Colorado since 1997. We have seven children - four boys and three girls.
How You Can Pray
Please pray for Jon and the kiddos - this is much harder for them than it is for me. I would appreciate prayer that my pain would be insignificant. Even more than that, please pray that I will be able to think clearly all the way to the end of my life. And even more than that, please pray that I will accept the grace from God to deal with anything He chooses to bring my way. You may also pray for my healing, but I have to be honest - I am more mentally and emotionally invested in seeing Jesus right now than I am in being healed. If God chooses to heal me, He'll give me the grace to wait a little longer to meet Him "whom having not seen, [I] love."
9 comments:
Awww... Love the pictures. Thanks for posting them. We continue to pray for you.
LOVE that book. I have bought it for all my nephews and my niece.
Such cute pictures!
Precious!!! We still pray for you faithfully. Let us know when the PET scan is scheduled. I am sure you are glad to be done with chemo. Only a month and a half left. Hang in there! We love you so much.
Precious pictures! Praying. Praying about the scans.
What sweet pictures! I love that book! Someone gave it to me when Hannah was born and I read it to her every night before bed for almost that first year. Praying for you!
So Sweet, I just love them :)
Amy,
Precious pics! Praying for you as you begin radiation next week, then for the PET scan two weeks later. When we called your dad today and sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him --(I told him Uncle Jim was beside me singing it to him in his mind.) :) --he sounded tired, but good. He was having lunch with your mom, so I didn't talk long. Am thinking you probably talked to him too. Love you, honey.
Aunt Rachel
They are great pics!! He is getting so big and he is so cute!
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