Ramona’s Story

Site created on February 27, 2021

Welcome to Ramona's 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! Thank you for visiting.

After a routine screening mammogram,  Ramona was recently diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer.  The good news is that the tumor is small and treatment is beginning soon. Ramona will have surgery on March 10 with chemo and radiation to follow. 

So many wonderful family and friends have reached out to offer encouragement and support - from prayers and meals to friendly visits and  gifts. This may feel like a long journey ahead but the outpouring of love is truly helping. 

Ramona is a glass half-full kinda gal and is ready to fight! Her family will post updates here as she goes through treatment. If you would like to encourage her or help out in any way, please feel free to reach out to her daughters  - Angie, Misty or Punkin.

Please remind your loved ones to get their mammograms!

If you'd like to reach out to our family to offer support to Ramona, you can reach her daughters at 216.250.2998 or angie.smith1003@yahoo.com.

Newest Update

Journal entry by Angie Smith

Hi everyone, Mom had her second chemo treatment last Wednesday and is doing ok.

Side effects for the last few days were what we expected, but today was a little different. It's hard to see someone usually so full of energy, feel so bad that she doesn't really want to have a conversation or interact much with everyone - even during a family get-together that she'd normally thrive on with her grandkids.

To make sure she's not having more complications, she has another treatment tomorrow for bloodwork and extra fluids. The goal is to keep her out of the hospital. Hopefully this will bring her energy up and she'll feel better leading up to the next chemo. We do expect her to keep getting weaker as the process continues. Still hard to actually see it.

Thanks to everyone for continuing to pray and reach out to her. 

Check out the photo of baldies - she loves this photo since Pete shaved his head and they also got her precious baby, Molly, shaved too!
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