Carolee’s Story

Site created on December 16, 2010

Hi, my name is carolee Sjodin. On December 9th my doctor noticed a mass on x-ray and sent me to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis.  On Dec. 14th I had my adrenalin gland removed and a biopsy of other cancers in by body biopsied.  I came home for Christmas and returned the following monday to begin aggressive treatment for neuroblastoma which is very rare (one in a million) for my age group.  I will start chemotherapy for 5 days of each month and come home for 3 weeks to recover for the next treatment.  I will also need surgeries, stem cell transplants, bone marrow study and radiation to win this battle.  This is the beginning of a long recovery but I have much hope:)

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Journal entry by Candice Sjodin

September 23 2015
I found this page on my car seat this morning. God must have put it there because I did NOT and nobody has been in that seat since yesterday....
I have shared this with many and we all agree is in anointing of the Holy Spirit

"There was a scar on yonder mountain-side,
Gashed out where once the cruel storm had trod;
A barren, desolate chasm,reaching wide
Across the soft green sod.

But  years crept by beneath the purple pines,
And veiled the scar with grass and moss once more,
And left it fairer now with flowers and vines
than it had been before.

There was a wound once in a gentle heart,
Whence all life's sweetness seemed to ebb and die;
And love's confiding changed to bitter smart,
While slow, sad years went by.

Yet as they passed, unseen an angel stole
And laid a balm of healing on the pain,
Till love grew purer in the heart made whole,
And peace came back again."








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