Joanne’s Story

Site created on March 8, 2020

Welcome to our CaringBridge website. We are using it to keep family and friends updated in one place.

We will aim to post weekly updates on how Joanne is feeling and any updates she has when she meets with her doctors etc.

Of course, please feel free and continue to reach out to Joanne to let her know you are thinking of her and supporting her! By posting information on this website, we are hoping everyone can stay up to date as much as they wish and Joanne/Rich won’t have to communicate the updates to everyone individually. We know there is so much love and support for Joanne and so many people standing beside her in this battle. She is strong and oh so loved, and we know that soon, this battle will be a thing of the past and her and Rich can truly start to live the retirement they’ve always dreamed of.

Thank you for support and words of hope and encouragement.

Love, The Hawkins Family

Newest Update

Journal entry by Laura Hawkins

Today Joanne and Rich went to see her oncologist. They reviewed her blood work and was given the green light for round 2 of chemo. They also discussed her referral to “Dr G” (as we are calling him) who is the doctor in Toronto who can perform surgery to rid Joanne of her cancer. Her oncologist has given Dr G her name and we will wait for his call to set up an appointment. Her oncologist said  she will need to have been on chemo for 6 months (end of August) and then have 1 month off before the surgery. We are all remaining incredibly hopefully that Joanne’s body will respond well to the chemo and Dr G will select Joanne for this operation. 

Joanne is now off the IV and reported that she is coping. She will start the IV again for 5 days on Wednesday after her2nd round of chemo drip is removed. Joanne and Rich also went to see Dr Marsden yesterday who is her (amazing, amazing) naturopathic oncologist. 

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