Katelyn’s Breath of Life

Katelyn’s Breath of Life Living with cancer 🫁💗

12/15/2025

As the year 2025 ends, I find myself reflecting on all the blessings we have experienced this year. This year has been a tough one learning what it truly means to wake up and smile and actually experience love, joy, excitement, and even developing a positive outlook on the FUTURE, despite cancer. I recall hearing throughout my life “the peace that surpasses all understanding”. I never understood that. Thank you Jesus, that despite this terrible diagnosis, you still bless me, and continue to give me some type of peace. How amazing are your works.

My next scans are a few days after Christmas. Please pray for continued healing throughout me and good reports. 💗🫁

I hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas❤️

09/29/2025

CANCER UPDATE. My scans from last week look good! The spots on my liver are “not well distinguishable” meaning you can’t really even see them anymore because they have shrank so much! 🥹 The last measurement we read on these was a little under 50%! There was also a little shrinkage in my spine!! Just want to recall for everyone that per my PET scan in June, none of this tissue is active. That is the goal with my medication. But how amazing when I have a CT to read that the measurements of the spots are still shrinking!! Thank you all for your continued prayers!! God has been to good to us!!! 🫁💗

09/20/2025

It’s been about 3 months since my last scan which means next scans are in a few days. In June we heard some of the most amazing news- no active cancer cells shown on my PET. Doing these scans every 3 months can really dig into my faith. In June, right after that PET, life felt a little lighter. It felt so easy to say THANK YOU JESUS. It was all I could stand to not scream to everyone what He has done for me. How He has given me another year. Some days, like now, just before a scan, things are different. Not dark, not necessarily heavy, but not light. I am counting down the seconds until my appointment. I am quieter. More aware. I am listening, saying out loud “ok God, I am listening, what can I do”. And every 3 months I remind myself my faith is the best thing I can do. I know I have this wonderful medication. I also know I have this amazing God. He has handled it. He IS handling it. When I hear “it is stable”, “it’s improving”, “this is a negative PET scan”, I am reminded of that. Thanking Him for His grace on those days when my faith isn’t as big as other days.

Please send prayers for continued healing throughout me💗🫁

Thank you Lord for seeing me through this journey! We finally did it y’all 🥹Signed KATELYN, RN!!!!! 💗
07/18/2025

Thank you Lord for seeing me through this journey! We finally did it y’all 🥹

Signed KATELYN, RN!!!!! 💗

07/12/2025

One year since diagnosis. A year since my life changed. A year since my family’s life changed. A year of new limitations. A year of a new perspective on life. A year with hours spent on the phone learning what insurance will and will not do. A year having hard conversations way too often. A year building faith. The day is heavy, but I remember a time when we didn’t know if a year was possible. Thank you, Lord. I will celebrate life today. 🫁💗

06/27/2025

Update: after reviewing my ultrasound it was determined that the spot near my o***y is an enlarged/possibly hemorrhagic cyst. I have not had any symptoms, and cysts are common in my family. Therefore, there is no big cause for concern at this time. I am going to watch closely for symptoms/changes and we will repeat the ultrasound in 6-8 weeks to see if it’s resolved or if action should be taken. I am praying that this resolves with no issues and I am SO SO thankful to our God for His goodness in this answered prayer. I know He hears our prayers.💗🫁

06/20/2025

Praise report from scans!! For the previous spots my cancer was present-there is virtually none present now. Even the ones on my spine. Praise GOD. To be noted, PET scans pick up lesions if they are of a certain size or greater, which means they could still be there, but not picked up by the scan and either way are still smaller. That’s doesn’t mean I’m “cured” or in “remission”. I will always be a person living with cancer-per the medicine world. If I were to stop my pills the cancer would likely regrow. I will take these pills for the rest of my days to hopefully maintain this outcome.

However, there was a spot near my o***y that came up. They think it is a benign cyst and unrelated to my cancer. Hopefully that is the case. I will have an ultrasound next week. Please, please pray heavily for this to be just a benign cyst. Our God is so good and faithful. I am so so blessed to have had all these other spots be virtually gone in JESUS name and I pray it remains that way. I will speak the same over this spot near my o***y. 🫁💗

06/16/2025

Please send up some prayers for me as I have my next scan later this week. Living with cancer is something I never imagined. It helps me to talk about it, or cry, or laugh, or all- depends on the day. 🫁💗

03/20/2025

Praise report from scans!! My scan today showed some improvement in my lung and a decrease in the fluid around it! The other spots on my liver and spine are stable. Dr. V said she has other patients on this med (this med is fairly new 2018 ish is when it came out but is the number one recommended for my type of cancer). These other two patients have been on it for 4-5 years and are maintaining stable! I am trying to take every day as a blessing and a win so I will take it. I know God heard all of our prayers of healing and He will continue to do so. Thank you all!! I will have another scan in 3 months! We will do a PET instead of CT since it will have been a year (gasp) since my diagnosis.

I DO want to share that lately I have been feeling good!! I’ve gotten the comment from several friends and family that I look like I feel better. I think lately I’ve just been feeling positive about the outcome of this journey and the fact that I am approaching graduation! School is keeping me BUSY but I am loving every day I get to show up and put in the work. 40 days from taking my final! (Side note I told Dr. V she has to take the day off for me when I get pinned😅)

I have found some additional faith and prayers in the ladies in my small group. I shared my story with them on Tuesday, and how sometimes I just wake up and think “you know this just isn’t my problem it’s God’s problem.”

This morning I got in the car and heard a worship song I never had before, called “Battle Belongs” by Phil Wickham. The lyrics in this song say almost that exactly! Sometimes God just has a way of settling our hearts. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you all again for the continued support and prayers. 🫁🩷

03/17/2025

My next scan is in a few days. Please send prayers! Thank you all in advance 🩷🫁

Tomorrow starts my last first day of nursing school. I have finally reached last semester! I remember when I was in the ...
01/08/2025

Tomorrow starts my last first day of nursing school. I have finally reached last semester! I remember when I was in the hospital (before my surgery and before I knew we were dealing with cancer), I told my pulmonologist to do whatever he had to do to get me the heck out of there because I had to get back to school. He said “Ms. Katelyn if there’s anybody that understands your mind set it is me, but you need to be here and focused on getting better.” Fast forward to the appointment with my oncologist, and we found out that the top recommended management for my cancer is an oral targeted therapy, which would allow me to finish out nursing school, we all cried. I am still immunocompromised, but not at risk as much as I would be if it were IV chemo. All I have wanted was to get back in school and have some type of normalcy. And it was all my family wanted for me. It has been my dream for as long as I can remember to be a nurse. A nursing future is going to look much different for me now, and I am still adjusting to that. But, the thought of feeling a little more normal and achieving this goal has given me something to look forward to the past few months. I will be watched closely in hopes to prevent any recurrent infections. This semester is going to look very different for me in a lot of ways. Giving God all the thanks as His protective hand guides me through this last semester. Please send thoughts and prayers for my mindset, my strength, my immune system, and everything else as I push through this last semester. And an extra one for my mom because I know she is stressed about it. Katelyn, RN…. incoming!

12/23/2024

Cancer update! My scans from Friday are very similar to the ones from October. Everything is stable, no new growth. Not much change, and with the type of cancer I have being “treatable, not curable”, no new growth is counted a win.

No matter how many times I hear it, that phrase alone is so hard to stomach. And it’s not news to me that there is no “cure” for cancer. But even just having the possibility of any kind of remission removed from my future is even more earth shattering.

I am trying to focus on the fact that I can take my pills every day and try. I can try to find joy in this chaos. I can try to still have a career. I can try to keep pushing every day to be happy with my family. Life does not stop just because cancer starts.

Though the holiday season has been tough. I am thankful for each breath and day that I am granted and will continue to be. Cancer has given me a new perspective to “let the oceans roar, let the earth shake beneath me, let the mountains fall, for HE is God above the storms”. My faith is in the Lord, and it drives me every day. My prayers for healing will not stop.

Happy holidays to you all
And, love always!!🩷🫁

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