Annie’s Story

Site created on November 24, 2019

After a routine ultrasound during the early weeks of Annie's second pregnancy, her doctor discovered an abnormal mass growing on her left ovary. A  few weeks of monitoring it closely revealed that it was growing very rapidly, and a specialist decided that it needed to be removed immediately. The tumor was removed and the pathology report came back - it was cancer- cancer that didn't originate in her ovary, but instead her gut.  A colonoscopy was then scheduled and later confirmed that it was Stage 4 colon cancer.  The tumor and part of her colon were successfully removed, but Annie will be undergoing chemo treatments for the next six months while she fights (and wins!!) this battle during her pregnancy. 


There has been an outpouring of support for Annie, her husband Rick, and their 17-month-old darling baby girl, Quinn, so we are using this site to keep all of their family, friends and supporters updated in one place along this journey. They really appreciate all your love and support. 

Newest Update

Happy New Year

Journal entry by Annie Clausen —

I hope everyone’s new year is off to a wonderful start.  I’ll lead with the good news….the trial is continuing to work well for me.  I think overall my tumor marker has dropped 50% and I have had 30% reduction in my tumors. 

This is more than my oncologist expected so we are all very happy with these results! 

Unfortunately I have had pneumonia for almost 10 weeks which has overshadowed all the cancer stuff.  I got a really bad cough a couple weeks before Thanksgiving and I still have it.  It’s been 10 weeks of coughing, congestion, shortness of breath, fatigue and did I mention coughing?  Ive been on 4 rounds of antibiotics which in turn gave me another infection last week, thrush!  It’s been A LOT and feels like ground hogs day over here!  The cold weather hasn’t been helping my lungs….I need to go sit in the sun somewhere and breathe the salty ocean air in! 

I’m seeing another lung doctor in the next few weeks to hopefully get some more answers and start to feel better.  In the mean time we hang on to the good news about the trial :) 

Asking for lots of prayers I can kick this pneumonia soon! 

Xoxo
Annie 
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