Sorry it’s been awhile, and we have loved the love and support shown to Erica as she ended her chemotherapy journey! Thank you everyone who reached out, liked, loved, followed, offered words of inspiration, encouragement, gifts, and just plain showed that compassion and love in all the unique ways that you did! You are very much appreciated and we cannot thank you enough for all the support and love through this journey!

Next for Erica is a double mastectomy surgery…TOMORROW! We are set to be at the hospital (West Health in Plymouth) by 9am. First she’ll get a dye that floats through the body, and this is intended to “light up” areas that cancer cells such as in the lymph nodes in her right arm pit. As previously written, the jury is still out on whether this has spread to her lymph nodes, but just to recap: she received a biopsy that came back negative for spread to the lymph nodes, but the PET scan “lit up” in her arm pit. PET scans can light up if there’s inflammation too, which she had just received her biopsy a few days prior to PET scan, and it wasn’t the nicest biopsy she’d ever received…Erica still feels nerve pain in that area and this was months ago…I digress…

Erica’s oncologist, at her last Dr.’s appointment said, we’ll assume there’s a spread. There’s a 6% chance that there wouldN’T be a spread…so people… WE ARE THE 6%…help us manifest the 6%… we’ll find out and confirm tomorrow that she’s the 6% with this blue dye injection when nothing lights up. ☺️🤞

Surgery begins at noon where the boobies be gone! This is a same day surgery, so she’ll be home and resting for the next couple weeks. She’ll have drains (Jackson Pratt bulbs) to pull off fluid build up, and those will be removed after about 2 weeks depending. In the medical world, we need the drainage to be below a certain number of milliliters everyday for so many days to consider pulling those out (approximately 2 weeks). With any significant body modification, this lays out a brand new canvas for a beautiful chest piece tattoo in the future! 🥰 

We’ll keep everyone posted tomorrow on social media and through texts. When you’re able, please manifest that we are the 6%, Dr. R has the goodest, most specialist, most steady, and most compassionate of hands and heart, the surgical team is a force to be reckoned with, and Erica has the smoothest of rides in opening this next chapter. 

Thanks everyone for your continued love and support, and we’ll keep you posted! 🤗 Love you all! 💕