Erika's Cancer Knock Out Journey, 15681 New Hampshire Court (2026)

11/07/2023

07/11/2022 A year ago today, I received the call from my Doctor Aparna Eligeti to let me know that I had Breast Cancer. My world fell apart . It has been a very difficult year for me and my whole family but I think “C”made me stronger and a better person. I love the new Erika and I love the way I chose to live the rest of my life thanks to “C”.
I finally feel that I’m getting to the end of this bad journey and soon “C” will be just a bad dream. A lot of side effects due to chemo and radiation but I’m still here and I’m able to tell my story,so I’m very grateful for that.
I’m nervous and excited of the first phase of my Breast
Reconstruction with flap surgery, scheduled for 08/21/2023 ( No Implants )
🙏Thank you again to all of you for all the support, you guys made my life easier this past year🙏.
Thank you Lord🙏
🪽No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.🪽

18/04/2023

And today …… Is the second time that I rang the bell “ Radiation is finally done “I have being coming here everyday day for the last 28 days(M-F) .
At one point I wanted to quit but thanks to my wonderful family and good friends, I kept it going. I feel like a new person and I appreciate life more than ever🙏🏻
Thank you lord for giving me another chance.

07/02/2023

And that time is here ! We are on our way to Miami ,my mom is going back to Colombia 🥺🥺🥺, after 7 months helping me 100% on everything, dealing with my good days and bad days and the most important of all,she helped me to find GOD in my life again🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. Always telling me that I will win the battle against C. Honestly without her I don’t think that I would have be able to fight C the way I did it .
The Doctors and my good friends did a big part on my journey too,but the diet and my new lifestyle that my mom thought me to do was the other big part on this journey to get C out of my body and I will keep a healthy diet for the rest of my life and always with GOD in my heart 🙏🏻I’m gonna miss my mom and my sister soooooo MUCH and I will never have enough time in my lifetime to thank them for everything they have done for me. Mami Elvira Mercado . La quiero con todo mi corazón and I pray every day to have you with us for many many years .
I will see you on December if is GOD wish!
Tu hija que te ama
Erika

20/01/2023

Good morning 💝
Thank you for all the prayers, text, calls, flowers. I’m doing really good and I have been walking few times a day. My mom says I don’t stay still 😅😅😅 but like I told her I’m so happy and full of joy for the new beginning of my life. Gracias DIOS, thank you GOD for the new life you give me on 01/17/2023. I received the final pathology yesterday and everything confirmed that are no signs of any cancer!
I also received the amazing news that I was employee of the year 2022 at my work. Top performer 5 months out of 12. It is an amazing accomplishment for me since 2022 was the hardest year in my entire life. But I love my work and what I do. I couldn’t let C ruin that too and the support from Kornerstone has been and is unconditional.
My family awwwe my family, what can I say….. They are the BEST! My sister and my cousin are on there way from Colombia to help. I’m so excited I will have my sister and my cousin here with me tonight 🥰🙏🏻
Have a blessed day everyone and Thank you one more time to everyone.

17/01/2023

Well she made it!! Huge weight lifted off her chest, no pun intended. The MD said all the Nodes were clear as soon as they injected them and the tumor could not be seen with the naked eye! In fact she stated the surgery went text book and no other signs or chances she will get this again. So Fred is DEAD!! Nurses had her up walking quickly and recovery was fast. Still loopy from the anesthesia, but in great spirits!

17/01/2023

Our girl is back there being strong as ever. Been a long road to get to this point and still a little bit of path to continue. But we see the light at the end of the tunnel and it’s all down hill from here on out. Please pray for her and I will keep everyone posted this afternoon when she is done. Going to be a very long 5 hours.

11/01/2023

I just wanted to let you all know that DMX surgery is scheduled for 01/17🙏🏻 ! To be honest I’m anxious and nervous at the same time but I want to get this over with .
One step forward on winning this battle .
Thank you so much for all the support and please keep me on your prayers 🙏🏻Im so grateful for having you all in my life .
My sister and my cousin will be here next week to help David , my mom, my dad and Joseph to take care of me . I feel lucky .
Thank you GOD

06/01/2023

I just wanted to share the most amazing news I have ever had in my entire life after Joseph was borned . My MRI was done on 12/29 . I have been very worried with so many thoughts and different scenarios come to my mind every day, especially when I wake up in the mornings. Today they finally called me from the Oncologist office to give me the results:
They said that the tumor has shrunk to the size of a benign tumor and there is no sign that anything has gone to my right breast ! She said this was wonderful news because this means that Chemo works and no metástasis.The first thing I did was ran to the small Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary sculpture that I have in my room and said “Thank You” for giving me another chance ,Thank you GOD for listening to all the prayers . Then I called my mom right away. We did a call all of us.My Dad and my mom are on a most deserve cruise since Sunday and my moms birthday was yesterday, so God gave her the joy and hapiness with this news because she is being calling to check if I got the results . I wanted to say without my Mom and all the stuff she has done for me on these 5 months my results could have being different . THANK YOU MAMI . Thank you to my David for taking me to Chemo for the las 5 months, for dealing with my 100 different moods and still staying by my side . I LOVE YOU.Thank you-to my son Joseph for always be calm and always telling me “Mom you are not gonna die, you will be OK . Thank you to My dad,my sister and my 2 brothers , mis Cuñis , my nephews and nieces , my Father and mother in-law (mom &dad)for always being there for me and telling me the right words when I needed it the most .
My entire family and friends THANK YOU for all the prayers. God listen and give us the chance to change and follow him. Thank you to my wonderful work family Kornerstone because they have support me 100% for 5 months, on the time I have to take off for treatment and other reasons, I have the best boss ever which I respect and consider a friend too. I had cried so much today that I think are not more tears in my eyes. I have a soul again.
God is good, he is good to people and Im a good person. ( someone very special to me thought me that and I say it for the rest of my life).
I have the appointment with the Surgeon on 01/09 and hopefully we will be a surgery date. I‘m still firm on my decision of having a mastectomy . I know this is not over but I feel that I won a very important battle against “C” with God holding my hand and all the prayers from all of you. The rest is on me to keep winning . Next phase is surgery but I’m fine with that. A pair of breast don’t make who I’m and who I want to be for the rest of my life .
Thank you to all of you for your prayers, calls, text, gifts through all this time. God listen to our prayers and you guys have been a BIG part on this process!!! A million thank you’s will not be enough !
Erika P

15/12/2022

I just wanted to let y’all know that I DID it ! I rang the bell yesterday after Chemo !!!! I was so excited from the moment I got to the Florida Cancer Specialist Building.
I did the normal routine but this is another amazing part from yesterday when the nurse took us to the room to see the Oncologist . Guess what room number they put us in …..YES room #14 🎂🎂🎂 I was just crying and she is like looking at me so I said today is my birthday and we got room #14 and is my last chemo then she look at her watch and said wow this is good news for you 🥰. So my day started perfect right there. Then my blood work came up good ( almost 5 months of Chemo and always came up good , I’m so very very grateful for that and thanks to all the food and stuff my mom cooked for me ).After they put the Red Devil I was ready to start feeling bad as usual but I didn’t, maybe the happiness in my heart that I was done with the first part of this journey and like my family and friends tell me “ The Mind is a powerful thing “ . Then David, my mom and Joseph came to be with me on the most special moment on my Birthday. Vanessa and Joseph made this beautiful poster for me . Tears tears and tears . My awesome Oncologist , nurses were there for me too( I brought them cookies and I said thank you so much for everything you did for me, you were always kind and supportive BUT I really hope to don’t to see you again 😂😂😂. They laughed.
Then listen to this …..we came home and what I see on my front yard …. A giant beautiful sign for me 💖🥰🥰🥰🥰 I was in tears . My girls Tribe from Georgia did it again l, they are truly amazing friends . Is just surprises always arriving to this house 4 almost 5 months from them . The day before yesterday it was the earrings that I was wearing yesterday . I’m really blessed with the family and friends I have 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻I was so happy and excited all day yesterday that I didn’t even feel bad for a moment .
I decided to order Italian food instead of going out to eat and it was a cheating day for me so I ate for first time a regular dessert ‘Tiramisu’ Oh my !!😋😋it was so good.
I did Facetime with a lot of my good friends that called me all the way from London to Colombia . It was a really good day thank you thank you y’all for being so good to me and being praying and fighting with me through this ! I will never forget . Now I’m on the most happy vacation of my entire life “4 weeks until surgery ” No more Chemos 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽.
Ps : The Oncologist said yesterday that they will do just an MRI on both breast since when they did the PET scan the first time came up negative and the tumor was just on that spot .
Thank you Thank you for being the best supportive group in my
Life !!!!

14/12/2022

Today is a big day for me, is my “Last Chemo” Is being almost 5 months since I started the first phase on this hard journey. I’m feeling a mixed of emotions since I get to the ring “The Bell” after treatment today and is also my 47 birthday. My mom and my brother said “ Erika you borned again today but without C 🙏🏻” I never
planned it for my last Chemo to be on my birthday. When my Oncologist told me few weeks ago I even tried to change it for an earlier day and she said I couldn’t because the insurance wouldn’t cover it. Then I thought that maybe it was sign from GOD.
I want to say THANK YOU to my mom for being the biggest support for me. Is being almost 5 months since she left Colombia and came to the US to be with me. I honestly don’t know what I will do without her. She is patience with me on my bad days , she cooks all the food that is good for me on my condition, also cooks for David and Joseph . She reminds me Everyday that I will be OK and with faith and with GOD in our lives everything is possible. She thought me how to pray the Rosary and we do it sometimes together or by ourselves, we used to go to mass every Sunday but since I started the red devil Chemo my immune system goes down after Chemo and I can’t get out of bed for 4 days so now we watch the virtual mass from Colombia. She is my company because life goes on and David travels all the time and Joseph is at school.
I see life on a very different way now, to me God, family,health and true friends are the biggest treasure. Without these 4 we have nothing.
Today I’m happy and scare at the same time ….Happy because today I finish Chemo ,is my birthday and I get to make a wish 🥰🙏🏻but scare because today they will schedule a PET scan to make sure that the Chemo worked and the tumor did shrink and still encapsulate it ( My Oncologist said that it did shrink and they can’t feel it ). I can’t feel it either.
I have asked GOD sooooo many times to give me another chance. Today will be a different birthday for me because after my treatment I will be on bed all day, no cake , no party no hair 🤣 but with the hope that I won the first battle against “C” . The next one will be on middle January when they do the DMX. Thanks to David, Joseph ,my family and my friends (you know who you are ) THANK YOU for always being there for me and remind to be strong .
God , I just want to live longer and see Joseph to reach all his goals and one day to have his own family 💖💖.
Erika Parks

16/11/2022

Today I’m feeling strong and giving the fight to the Red Devil one more time !!! 12/14 will be my last day of Red Devil and it will be my best birthday gift on my birthday 🎂if everything keeps going the way it is !!! GOD IS GOOD 🙏🏻🙏🏻

19/10/2022

Today is a good day 🙏🏻🥰 Is Chemo #12 (fourth cycle and only Taxol )then next week I will be on vacation 😂😂😂is my week break before starting the “Red Devil chemo” on 11/02 through 12/14 which happens to be my birthday too ! Is all good 🥰🙏🏻 I have faith that I will have more years to celebrate it .
Thank you Josine for the beautiful rosary, it always will be a special gift since it was your moms 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 and is also on my favorite color . Thank you Thank You my friend 😘

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