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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."
4 comments:
Aww...looks like the baby awful comfty! Did you think of a name yet? I'm so excited for the two of you!
He or she is a cutie already! I am praying for all of you daily, several times a day! Did the ultrasound make the pregnancy seem more real? I bet it has been nearly impossible to get excited about that aspect of this experience with so m any other thoughts weighing on your mind. We praise God for your precious example of how to respond to trials! Thanks for letting God use you all!
Aww, what a sweet, sweet baby already!! I know you must be so excited to see this little angel you are waiting for :) Are we thinking pink or blue in the Bixby household, or is it divided down the middle? Heehee :) I am so happy for you and am praying for the two of you and your entire family!!
Looks like a little Bixby to me!!! Isn'tit just amazing to see the little bitty thing! Still praying for you all.
Love, Bob & Sherry
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