TL; DR: Physical recovery going well even though the drains stayed in longer than I wanted.  Emotionally/mentally has been a big challenge and I’ve have been struggling with some pretty terrible insomnia. Oncologist also thrilled with pathology results, still have to do radiation, Keytruda (9 rounds), and other surgeries. More info on the surgery and […]

TL;DR: The cancer is dead dead dead and gone gone gone. I’m beyond excited. Still healing from surgery and still have a fair bit of treatment to go. Today is a fabulous day! We’ve been working, hoping, and praying for this for a long time and today we got the pathology results from the breast

Hello everyone, this will be a short post as my energy levels are still very much in recovery mode. That being said I wanted to thank everyone for your incredible support both before my surgery and after! I am so humbled and grateful for all of your support, positive thoughts, prayers, comments, messages, texts, phone

Hi Everyone! Mike here… First I want to thank you for all of your well wishes and support you have expressed for Kathryn’s surgery. The surgery was completed today and lasted about 10 hours not including the pre-op activities or the post-op recovery. I got to see her after she was moved to her room

TL; DR: We hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Surgery is on Friday, 12/2. I am glad the day is here but I’m scared and nervous about the surgery and recovery. I’ve been trying to prepare for surgery both physically and mentally. Some requests for prayers/positive thoughts/support. We’re getting excited to be somewhat out in

This post will start with something that we’ve been keeping a bit private as it’s not solely our story to share.  In mid-October, my wonderful father-in-law, Bob, passed away after a long battle with Lymphoma.  As you can imagine, this has broken our hearts and this healing is an entirely different journey.  To say that Bob is

I had some appointments this week that have helped define the next steps in my cancer treatment and wanted to share what I’ve learned.  This will require discussion of some items that I’ve been thinking about how to write about for a long time and now the time seems right to discuss them.  This is

TL;DR: Done with 3/4 the round, things are a bit cumulative – this is hard stuff, thank you for all you do for us! Well, I’m officially 3/4 of the way “done” with treatment for round 2. Done is a relative term of course as I’m still feeling the last treatment, but I’m through the

TL;DR: Treatment #2 is done, I’m 1/2 done. It’s a bit rougher than round 1, but ok. I’m feeling more like myself/better now. So far, no hospital and my counts are good! Almost 2 weeks ago I had treatment 2 of round 2. It went ok. The Neulasta I think made me less tired but

TL; DR: We hope everyone had a great holiday weekend; we’re doing our bests to stay cool out here. (Grateful for AC!) On track for treatment on Friday, will get the Neulasta patch this time to hopefully prevent the severe neutropenia. My eyebrows and eyelashes are nearly fully gone and so I’m fighting a battle