Lara’s Story

Site created on May 12, 2021

In the month of April, 2021, Lara was diagnosed with Stage 4 Colorectal Cancer. The outpouring of love and support has been amazing and overwhelming, all wrapped into one. We thought it would be a good idea to centralize Lara's updates on a single platform. This allows us to send notes of love and encouragement, allowing Nick and Lara to read and respond as they are able to do so. It also provides a forum for  group updates. In addition to updates on Lara's journey, we will include options to help support them. 

We are so thankful for everyone who loves Nick and Lara fiercely and wants to be a part of this journey with them. 

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." ~Christopher Reeve

Newest Update

Journal entry by Lara Bravo

Follow up appointment for my radiation was today. I met with Dr. Pu’s physician assistant. Their office is so amazing with explaining everything and showing scans. They answer questions before I even have them. So on my CT scan, it mentioned some spots that had grown. Again, Dr. Nagi said there was not disease progression. The spot that was radiated is measuring a little bit bigger. But, that is likely scar tissue and or inflammation from the radiation. There is a spot in my left lung, that Dr. Pu may want to biopsy later. We are going to keep an eye on it. But they feel it is stable and not increasing. We will scan again around the one year mark of my radiation. Which will be July. And we already scheduled my next follow up for October. 

I think this should cover it for now. Chemo will be next week, providing my bloodwork is good. 

xoxo - Lara 
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