`Welcome to our CaringBridge website. We've created it to keep friends and family updated about my condition and progress. Thank you for reading my story and we greatly appreciate any prayers. I know that we serve a God who is bigger than my cancer and for that I am grateful! Even though there is no earthly cure, my Father in Heaven gives out Heavenly miracles every day!
Thank u all for your love, prayers & support. My life changed on September 8, 2011 when I found out that I have cancer. Its a very rare form of leukemia & is not curable. I would rather not share the name of the type of cancer I have because I have had people google it and volunteer information to me that I would rather not hear. I dont mean to offend anyone, I just would rather focus on the positive. Only God knows what will happen with my life and I like it better that way:) Although, the type that I have someone has a 1 in a million chance of getting it and there are no cases to date of anyone, anywhere in the world having this type of cancer during pregnancy. I am the first. I had a bone marrow biopsy while 7 months pregnant on September 2, 2011 that confirmed. I could not be put to sleep or sedated because it was too risky for the baby. They could only numb my skin where the incision was made and I felt the whole thing as the doctor took some of my hip bone out. Im not sure when I will have to start chemotherapy but I do have to start daily injections of medicine now. I put my life in Gods hands & know that He is always with me. I love you all and thank you for your support. God is my rock. He knows all the stars in the sky by name and a God that amazing can still perform miracles. Please continue to pray. You never know when your life can change. Everything I used to complain about or get upset over is just so small to me now....compared to my life and and wanting to live to be a mother to my little boy everything else is just so unimportant. No one ever expects to be an oncology patient.....especially not at 27 years old and 7 months pregnant with your first child. It is not in my heart to ask God "why me?"....I can only thank Him for my many blessings and know that He is with me and this is apart of His will. No matter what I will praise Him and thank Him everyday. I am scared....but I have cancer, it does not have me! My life may be different now, but it has definiltey been blessed as well. I pray that God lets me live to see my son grow old, but if not I will always be his guardian angel. In a way, he was my guardian angel first. My doctors told me that this probably would not have been found until it was much worse and I was already very symptomatic. Only because I had been going in to be checked so often during prenatal visits did they start to notice odd, consistent signs in my lab work. I thank God everyday for my son.
I am going to see my doctor tomorrow morning at 9:30. Your prayers would mean so much to me right now. I do read my guest book entries and cherish the sweet, encouraging words left there. Thank you so very much for the continued support, prayers, emails and text messages. I love you all and it keeps me firm in my faith to know that almost 2 years after my diagnosis that I still remain in your prayers. God is always faithful and I know these new doors that are being opened, good or bad, are leading to a purpose for His glory! I pray all goes well tomorrow but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous. Thank you from the bottom of my heart again <3
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