Hi everyone, thank you so much for your support and positive thoughts with my surgery and recovery- they are so much appreciated! Your encouragement really helps during these tough times! I had my post op appointment yesterday and things are going very well from a physical healing standpoint. The surgeon said my incisions are healing […]

Hi Everyone. Thank you for following Kats blog and sending so many positive messages to her before surgery. She is home and feeling good but very tired. The surgery took about 1.5 hours and then she spent a few hours in the recovery room. She had some nausea and those meds on top of the

Hi everyone, thank you so much for all of your support! I wanted to let you know that there has been a time change to my surgery. It’s now first thing in the morning on 6/19. if you pray and/or send positive thoughts I would be most grateful for the following prayers, positive thoughts, and

TL;DR: Life feels a lot more normal which is nice. Emotionally I’m feeling stronger and more stable. Surgery #2 is planned for 6/19. If you are inclined, I would be grateful for your thoughts and prayers on the 19th. It’s been awhile since my last post, things have almost been “normal” for the last few

TL;DR: Healing from radiation is going well. Mike is also continuing to heal very well. 2ndsurgery is scheduled for June 19thand my Keytruda treatments are a little delayed due to low Cortiosol. There’s still lots of doctors appointments. Emotionally I’m still working through it all, and it’s hard, but I’ll get there. Post frequency may

TL;DR: radiation (28 treatments) is done; still have a few weeks with side effects. PT is also almost done and went well; I have good range of motion in my arms now. I’m feeling some more strong emotions, but am grateful for support. Mike continues to be healing well for which we’re very grateful! I

TL;DR: We’re healing slowly but well. Mike’s doing very well after his surgery and while I’m tired from radiation it’s going really well too. We hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! We wanted to give everyone an update on how things are going here at the Williams household. As noted, healing is a slow

Wanted to quickly update everyone that Mike’s surgery went well today! We’re home and he’s feeling ok. The surgeon let us know that he thinks he knows why Mike had so much pain this weekend…there was a second bulged disk lower down in his back that he found today in surgery. He removed that bulged

TL;DR: Going back to work was good, I’m glad I’m part time as my energy level is still recovering. Radiation treatment is going well and the machine and process is objectively interesting. We’re getting ready for Mike’s surgery this week and are grateful it’s so soon because he’s been having a tough go of it

TL:DR; I’m setup for radiation and will start that 2/1. I’ve had my first Keytruda only infusion which went well. I’m feeling much better mentally and feel really good physically too. I’ll be returning to work part time next week which I’m very excited about. Please keep Mike in your thoughts as he has back