October 30, 2008 at 9:26 pm (Update)
Tags: cancer, chemo, port, treatment
I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The good news is that if you get cancer that is the kind you want. It is the slowest growing and most curable. It is in my hip and one possible spot on my chest. So, the treatment plan as of now is that I start chemo on November 5th. I will have chemo every other Wednesday for 6 months and then at the end of the chemo I will have radiation.
I will be getting a port surgically put in on November 5th as well as my first chemo treatment. So please pray for me this coming Wednesday because it will be a very long, hard day. I have to check into the hospital at 6:30 am for my surgery then after my surgery I go straight to my oncologist office for chemo. So I will need much prayer that day since it will be a tough day.
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October 30, 2008 at 9:15 pm (Update)
Tags: cancer, God, Sara, Tyler
This is all very new to me so hang in there and hopefully I will write stuff you want to read! This has been the craziest year of my life. There have been more changes than I would have ever imagined happen. I started working at Arizona State University in the Global Institute of Sustainability as a travel coordinator and events assistant.
I went back to work because Tyler was laid off last fall and his new job came with a significant decrease in income. I would say my enthusiasm was low for returning to work. I struggled with depression for a few months about working and leaving my daughter in the care of someone other than me. After all who can really care for her the way I can. No one would love and care for the way I would. It was hard for me.
Then I spent nine weeks wondering if I had Thyroid cancer due to the incompetent and uncaring doctors that I was seeing. While my Grandma was struggling to survive her cancer. My Grandmother later passed away from the cancer in July.
All of that was the first seven months of the year. During all of this my relationship with God has grown. I questioned and prayed a lot to God and asked why A LOT, but my faith grew. I knew that somehow this was all part of His plan somehow. God never said that life will be easy. “Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying.” Romans 12:12
So then October came. Oh, October. October has been one of the most trying and hardest months of my life. I have been having pretty severe pain in my right hip and leg since the end of July. I went to the chiropractor because I thought it was my normal back problems and gave the chiropractor about 5 weeks to get me back to normal. Well all of my normal back pain went away but the pain in my hip and leg only worsened so I went to my family doctor.
My family doctor sent me for an MRI at the beginning if October for what she thought was a pinched nerve. Only to have to get a biopsy on my hip. On October 15th, though, she informed me that I have lymphoma. Tyler and I were in shock.
Since then everything has happened extremely quickly. I met with my new oncologist two days later and he ordered more test and another biopsy and really just moved forward wasting no time to get a plan of action in place to heal me.
My first chemo treatment is Wednesday, November 5th. Just hours after I have my port surgically put in.
What I ask is that you pray for me and my family. I am not the first, the only, or last person to have cancer. I have strength because I have God, my family, and friends. All things that many people don’t. I draw from that and I am ready to start my journey down the cancer path and see what God does along the way. If I can help even one person because of this cancer or it means that my daughter will never have it then I say bring it on!
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