Journal entry by Jennie Hicks —
Hello everyone!
It’s been a minute since our last update. Sara has been home and healing with the help of friends and family. So many have provided meals, and stopped for visits and it has all been so very appreciated by Sara. She’s been doing really well with minimal pain. The expanders cause her some discomfort, but it hasn’t been anything that Tylenol or ibuprofen can’t take care of. She is slowly getting back to her normal routine and she even made me a tuna fish sandwich last week when mom and I were visiting. Ha!
Sara had her first fill of the expanders yesterday and she tolerated it very well. The plan is for 3 more fills as long as she’s feeling good.
Sara saw Dr. King today. Her first visit with him since her surgery. He used the phrase “perfect timing” when he talked to her about her cancer and her prognosis. Sara had 5 very small tumors that were invasive, meaning outside of the lobe and into the breast tissue. The largest one only being 4mm. The rest of the tumor that we were seeing on her scans that was large (8cmx10cm) is was that call insitu meaning that the cancer is still contained to her lobes and has not spread into the breast tissue at all. This is a-mazing news. Dr. King said that Sara’s pathology was very rare in the fact that it came back better than what her scans were showing. With the invasive tumors being as small as they were and the other tumor still contained to the lobe Sara will NOT need any chemo OR radiation. Thank you Jesus. Dr. King considers her CANCER FREE and says she may not even have to do the endocrine drug therapy either. This is the very best news we could have asked for. Sara will go back in three months for bloodwork and to follow up with her Oncotype test that they re-ran on her whole tumor. This test will determine if she has to do the endocrine therapy or not. Please pray she doesn’t have to use this medication, it causes hot flashes that are very uncomfortable.
Dr. King was right, it was perfect timing. God’s perfect timing. He used mom’s cancer as a way to save Sara’s life. He took this battle and turned it into a triumph for both mom and Sara. He never once left either of them. He led them to the perfect doctors, scans, clinics. He showed us what it means to lean into our faith and trust him fully. Thank you God, for such a wonderful outcome, for holding our hand through every singe step of this journey. We know that both Sara and mom have been healed in your precious name.
We thank you all so very much for every prayer, thought, text, phone call and donation not one of those things has been overlooked. Please remember that we are all here, ready and willing to send prayers out for you for anything you need. Please don’t ever hesitate to ask. It would be an honor to reciprocate the love and support you’ve so freely given to all of us.
We feel incredibly blessed to get this news today. Sara will continue with her fills and plans on having her reconstructive surgery in July. We know she will heal quickly again with all the help of family and friends and by the end of August be back to her normal routine of running a household, taking care of others, going back to work and enjoying her hot tub
One last thing that we all felt the need to share. Ladies, please get your routine mammograms done. If they tell you to come back in six months or follow up if things change, please trust your gut. Advocate for yourself and tell them you want more, you want answers now. You know your body, better than anyone else. Don’t back down, you’re worthy of the extra effort to make sure things are right. We are so grateful Sara went back in, we are so grateful mom pushed for the mammogram even when they couldn’t find the lump. So be pushy, get it done, make them prove it. You’re worth it.
I will continue to update as Sara is navigating through this journey.
Love to you all
It’s been a minute since our last update. Sara has been home and healing with the help of friends and family. So many have provided meals, and stopped for visits and it has all been so very appreciated by Sara. She’s been doing really well with minimal pain. The expanders cause her some discomfort, but it hasn’t been anything that Tylenol or ibuprofen can’t take care of. She is slowly getting back to her normal routine and she even made me a tuna fish sandwich last week when mom and I were visiting. Ha!
Sara had her first fill of the expanders yesterday and she tolerated it very well. The plan is for 3 more fills as long as she’s feeling good.
Sara saw Dr. King today. Her first visit with him since her surgery. He used the phrase “perfect timing” when he talked to her about her cancer and her prognosis. Sara had 5 very small tumors that were invasive, meaning outside of the lobe and into the breast tissue. The largest one only being 4mm. The rest of the tumor that we were seeing on her scans that was large (8cmx10cm) is was that call insitu meaning that the cancer is still contained to her lobes and has not spread into the breast tissue at all. This is a-mazing news. Dr. King said that Sara’s pathology was very rare in the fact that it came back better than what her scans were showing. With the invasive tumors being as small as they were and the other tumor still contained to the lobe Sara will NOT need any chemo OR radiation. Thank you Jesus. Dr. King considers her CANCER FREE and says she may not even have to do the endocrine drug therapy either. This is the very best news we could have asked for. Sara will go back in three months for bloodwork and to follow up with her Oncotype test that they re-ran on her whole tumor. This test will determine if she has to do the endocrine therapy or not. Please pray she doesn’t have to use this medication, it causes hot flashes that are very uncomfortable.
Dr. King was right, it was perfect timing. God’s perfect timing. He used mom’s cancer as a way to save Sara’s life. He took this battle and turned it into a triumph for both mom and Sara. He never once left either of them. He led them to the perfect doctors, scans, clinics. He showed us what it means to lean into our faith and trust him fully. Thank you God, for such a wonderful outcome, for holding our hand through every singe step of this journey. We know that both Sara and mom have been healed in your precious name.
We thank you all so very much for every prayer, thought, text, phone call and donation not one of those things has been overlooked. Please remember that we are all here, ready and willing to send prayers out for you for anything you need. Please don’t ever hesitate to ask. It would be an honor to reciprocate the love and support you’ve so freely given to all of us.
We feel incredibly blessed to get this news today. Sara will continue with her fills and plans on having her reconstructive surgery in July. We know she will heal quickly again with all the help of family and friends and by the end of August be back to her normal routine of running a household, taking care of others, going back to work and enjoying her hot tub
One last thing that we all felt the need to share. Ladies, please get your routine mammograms done. If they tell you to come back in six months or follow up if things change, please trust your gut. Advocate for yourself and tell them you want more, you want answers now. You know your body, better than anyone else. Don’t back down, you’re worthy of the extra effort to make sure things are right. We are so grateful Sara went back in, we are so grateful mom pushed for the mammogram even when they couldn’t find the lump. So be pushy, get it done, make them prove it. You’re worth it.
I will continue to update as Sara is navigating through this journey.
Love to you all
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