Julie Wright Julie Manes Wright

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Life update...on July 20th, I felt several large lumps in my neck on the left side. I wasn’t too concerned because I thought it may just be an infection. I made an appointment with my doctor just to be sure. Over the course of the next 6 days, more painful lumps started forming on my left side and my chest became tight and harder to get a full breath. I was sent to a few different specialists and had a lot of tests run. I had a surgical biopsy of the lymph nodes in my neck on August 12th. I got a phone call on August 19th that I have cancer, stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma (possibly stage 4, awaiting bone marrow biopsy results). It was certainly a shock, but also a relief to finally have a diagnosis. I now have my port in and will soon start 6 months of chemo every 2 weeks.

I tell you all of this, not for pity, but asking for prayers. I know there will be some tough days ahead. We have already been immensely blessed with prayers, meals, gifts, encouragement, etc from family and friends. My God is Awesome and I will continue to praise Him through this storm. He saw this coming and I know He’s got this!

We will try to update here weekly, if possible. We’ve never been through this personally, so we’ll see how it goes. We love you all!