Marla’s Story

Site created on May 24, 2022

Welcome to our CaringBridge website. We are using it to keep family and friends updated in one place. We appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement. 
On May 10,2022 Marla was diagnosed with stage III esophageal cancer. Marla will have six weeks of treatment, chemotherapy and radiation together to start. We are early in this journey and still getting information on the best approach for treatment from the oncology team. We will use this site to update everyone as information becomes available. Marla and her treatment team are remaining very positive and hope filled for a positive outcome to this cancer fight. We encourage everyone to help keep Marla encouraged and uplifted by sharing positive, encouraging, and hope filled messages on this page for her. Thanks for visiting and thank you for supporting Marla on this journey, and reminding her that no one fights alone! 

Newest Update

Journal entry by Roni Dopson

We wanted to let a few close family and friends know before we let others know. On Tuesday Mom went to the Dr because she wasn't feeling good and just feeling blah the last few days. She was dehydrated so she did recieve fluids and the Dr's also did a cat scan to check and make sure everything still looked good. Mom got her results Friday morning that her cancer has spread and it is all through her esophagus and the cancer is not reacting to the chemo treatments. We are going to consult with 2 other Dr's for another possible option. Thank you all for your continued thoughts and prayers.
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