Hello! No news is good news, right? Christy is moving along in her journey to live with and eventually beat her cancer! Being in this journey with Christy has truly been one of the most special things in my life. Difficult, fascinating, heart-breaking, up and down, but special. So color me shocked when I found out I had a malignant melanoma, and the tables were turned. I found it during Labor Day weekend, and just 12 days later I was in surgery. 19 days after finding it, I got the great news that I had "the kind of tumor you want to have, if you have to have one." It had not spread, was not too deep, and the surgery to remove it left me with some nice scars (7.5" for the tumor, much smaller for the lymph nodes).  Christy and I both laughed at the advice she tried to give to me about cancer. Advice that she, herself, never took. 😂 

I ended up blogging about my experience and wrote one about Christy, as well. It is a much more in-depth look at her daily life. You might find it jarring. I did, in writing it. When I asked if I could link it to this page, she said, "I feel like you could read my mind in that post. And my heart and my body and my brain. I also feel like you know what I’m feeling even better than I do!" So jarring, yes, but accurate, straight from horses mouth (sheesh, horrible expression).  

Hope you all are well!

Stephanie

Link to my blog post: https://factsandfluckles.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/her-hair-is-growing-back-but-she-is-not-fine/?fbclid=IwAR0zJ3a9Gjpp22MHlF3nGsHSkjvpxwChBGds-vNFI2y4fdpSYEhk-XFd7Vw