Jana’s Story

Site created on January 7, 2014

Thank you for visiting my blog.

As my favorite author Matthew Kelly says, life is made of choices. 
Everyday we have to make decisions: go to work or stay home? black pants or brown skirt? highway or main street? 

Every action we take leads us to a different path. The key is to learn how to make the right choices, the kind of choices that will help us become a better version of ourselves. The ones that will help us to get closer to ours dreams. The ones that will make a difference in someone's life. 

It's never too early to start making the right choices and it's never too late to change your path. 

My story is not much different from many other ordinary stories out there. 
Throughout my life, I have made many choices. Some of them led me to where I wanted to be, led me to make some of my dreams come true. Others, not so much. 

At the age of 35, breast cancer decided to remind me a lesson: We are not invincible and we are not irreplaceable.

Sometimes in life we really need to slow down and think about what matters the most: our family, friends and perhaps the ones that need us but don't need to know who we are: volunteer work. 

Thank you for taking the time to read my story. 
I hope you become a better version of yourself on each decision you make. 

Love,
Jana

This is the treatment the doctors recommended:

Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) + Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) = 4 sessions, 1 every 21 days.

Taxol= once a week for 12 weeks.

3 weeks break.

6-7 weeks of radiation, once a day, 5 days a week.


All Staff Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64WIMRrEn24


Newest Update

Journal entry by Jana Ramos-Ratliff

I haven't posted anything here in a long time but I want to start writing again. Writing has always made me feel better. If I am feeling happy, I like writing because I can express gratitude and magnify my feeling. If I am feeling sad, writing is like getting whatever is making me feeling sad out of me. 

I don't know if anyone reads this anymore but that's okay because I am sure that nothing that I write will be new to anyone, but here is how I felt today:  It's been a little bit of an emotional day. I hadn't played tennis since beginning of August, my tennis elbow got really bad and I had decided to take a break but today our 3.5 team needed someone to play and offered to play. I played single and lost to a very nice young girl. It was okay though, I had a good match and had some great points but was so inconsistent and couldn't close the games. 

I think the best thing about playing tennis, other than the exercise, is the sense of belonging. Every human being likes to have a sense of belonging and lately and being on a team makes me feel that I belong somewhere. 

I love playing and the feeling of not being able to play more often makes me sad. Tennis was the one thing that no matter how bad I felt in other areas of my area, I was always happy playing tennis. 

I also got covid tested today as some of my close friends have been tested positive recently. It was negative for me. 

I have at least two close friends (one is a friend and the other is the son of one of my agents) in critical condition at the hospital dealing with covid. This is horrible thing and I just wish it would go away. 

I also have had some people from the past coming back to my life, I don't what God's plans are, but it got me confused, I am not sure what do or how to respond to it. I think God is testing me and what I really should do is to just be nice and politely let them know that their time has passed and I have moved on. 

:) Jana

 

 

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