Faith

  • Reaching My Nadir

    The past 2 days have been hard. The extreme fatigue, the headaches, along with the mental toll that fighting leukemia can take on a person, is one that I am still learning to accept and comprehend. Being thrown into a cancer that I knew nothing about (I didn’t even know leukemia was a blood cancer),…

  • One Diagnosis Away

    Two weeks ago, I walked through the doors of the Cardiovascular Center at U of M, anticipating my 4th ablation. All in attempts to correct an arrhythmia that just seemed to keep coming back, no matter what the doctors did. Little did I know that when I left our house that morning, it would be…

  • Day 10

    When the nurse took the whiteboard marker and wrote “10” on my board, I had a hard time believing it. Just yesterday (or so I thought), I was told I had cancer. And Day 10 is actually the 10th day after starting chemotherapy. It’s amazing what God can lead us through, even when we think…

  • Never Alone

    My aunt dropped this shirt off at our house this week and when Dan took a picture of it to show me, I immediately cried (shocker, I know). There are so many facets of leukemia that I never knew existed until I started to walk this journey. Never in a million years would I have…

  • Chemo Fatigue Has Set In

    But hopefully it’s not here to stay. Today was a rough one. I woke up feeling fantastic, but after trying to get ready this morning, things went downhill pretty quickly. I struggled to get myself dressed and all I wanted to do was fall asleep in the chair or just go back to bed. What…

  • Beyond These 4 Walls

    A week ago, we could’ve never imagined that we would be walking the road of leukemia. A word I knew NOTHING about, 7 days ago. With severe heart failure. There are some things in life that you can imagine or picture yourself going through, but this one? I’ve struggled. A week ago, I sat weeping,…