Melisa’s Story

Site created on June 20, 2018

Hello Friends and family,


I wanted to create this page in order to keep anyone up to date on my progress today. I will be having a double mastectomy at 5:30am this morning. I found a lump in my left breast 6 weeks ago and since then have been diligently working to find the right doctors and get everything in order. Tim, my mom and sister Mandy are here with me but Tim will return Thursday to continue to run our thriving business. God has been amazing through all of the last year and I’m grateful for all the blessings that I have witnessed. Please pray for my family, the kids are by themselves at home today and tomorrow. May God bless the surgeons and their families. Give them patience, peace and strength to complete their tasks laid before them. And please pray for me to be cancer free. Thank you all so much for praying for me. I have been shown God through the prayers and grace of my fiends and family over the past six weeks. Thank you.

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Journal entry by Melisa Mcleod

Thank you all so very very much for the help that you have given me and my family over the past few months from food, gifts, cards of encouragement, texts, emails, messages on social media and the beautiful friend visits to my “vacation” in Boca. What a wonderful community we have in Lexington. Even though I’m 500 miles away, I felt love bigtime! The multitude of prayers have been felt all those miles away too. It makes me feel like I have not done enough for friends who have gone through this in the past. But I know that I’ve learned a lot and will absolutely use this in our caregiving business. Perspective is an amazing teacher. Whatever you have done for me it ALL counts and it helped me one more day to get through it. 

I had my double mastectomy on June 20th, heaped for 2 weeks and was supposed to hear what the results of the lymphnode direction pathology report said. It was delayed by one more week and I was pretty shocked to hear that in fact the growth in my lymphnode was malignant and even though the cancer is removed, chemotherapy and HER-2 therapy is required. I want to kill any cancer that is left in my blood stream. This process will take a year, I will be tired, have to change my lifestyle and lose my hair. God hasn’t been carrying me through this entire process, even though I have tried to break away from Him in protest, He continually reminds me that I am His child and He loves me, nurtures me and cares for me when I think I’m alone, He is there. 

My womderful friend sent me the most encouraging, fighter message from the Bible and another Christian publication. 

Shattered Dreams
 
“Shattered dreams are never random.  They are always…a chapter in a larger story.  The Holy Spirit uses the pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God…They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream.”  Larry Crabb
 
Verse or the day:  “We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know tha they help us develop endurance.  And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.” Romans 5:3-4  NLT
 
Quoted in "He Holds MyHand"  (Tyndale)

God is good ALL the time not just in our comfort. I can’t wait to see where this journey takes me but all that I do know is that I WILL be closer to Him. 

Thank you all so much for keeping in touch and please live for today. Listen to your children when they talk with eyes and ears, give to others with a simple smile or generosity even if it feels uncomfortable. 

Sincerely,

Melisa 
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