Squad Levi

08/11/2023

ATTENTION
Per Levi's request we ask that Noone comes to visit tomorrow Saturday August 12th. Thank you so much for everyone's love and support.

08/06/2023

Well I might as well give a not so good update on my son. As almost everyone knows, he was diagnosed last year with Stage 3, Grade 3 stomach cancer. To say it's been the hardest year is an understatement. For those of you that have been following his journey, you know we have hit some very hard rocky bumps in the road and defeated all odds more than once. He has fought the hardest battle I've ever had to watch anyone fight. For that, he will forever be my hero.
Thursday, we finally went to UK for his MRI for very severe chronic headaches and pain that was so unbearable. The nurse came in and told us the radiologist wanted us to wait because his oncologist wanted to talk to me before we left. I already knew. My heart shattered into a million pieces and my whole world collapsed when my phone rang. Levi's cancer is back and he has 3 tumors in the back of his brain 🥺
As of right now, we have not been told a prognosis, we have not been given any treatment options, and we don't know if it's in other places as well. We just know it isnt good and average survival is usually 2-4 months 😭
This is who made me a mommy at 16. This is who I grew up with. This is my first true love, and knowing I'm losing him makes me physically sick. I hate the world, I'm angry, I'm sad, I'm depressed, I'm anxious. I worry for my other children. Most of all I feel a sense of dread. I want these days I have left to last forever.
As you say your prayers at night, could you slip in one for my baby for comfort and peace, and for his brothers and sister, his step-dad, and wife, who are hurting as well. Please keep his aunts and uncles, and his mamaw and papaw, and anyone who has ever got the pleasure of meeting the best person I know in your thoughts. Because if you know Levi, you would know that there is not a bigger hearted person out there than him.
He doesn't want anyone sad, he wants everyone to know he's ok and has accepted this to the best of his ability. He wants happy memories and a life of normalcy as best he can.
He told me the day he was diagnosed last July, that he would never die, because he would always be alive in my heart, the first place we met he said, which was while he was in my belly. And he's right. His strength and courage is the only thing getting me through 💔
I honestly don't feel like talking to many people right now because this is just so much to process, hence the reason I decided to make a public post. Just pray. That's about all I can ask for!

04/26/2023

I have reached 200 followers! Thank you for your continued support. I could not have done it without each of you. 🙏🤗🎉

02/17/2023

02/17/2023

Ringing the bell....for completing some VERY tough chemo!!! I am one proud momma 💞💚💜

02/04/2023

I haven't made an update on here for a while, probably a long while. Here's where we are now. He is doing his post surgery chemo now, very strong, aggressive chemo. It is the same as pre-surgery, (FLOT). He just completed cycle 3 on Tuesday. This has been a rough set of chemo treatments because now he has no stomach and no gallbladder. Both were removed in surgery as well as 14 lymph nodes, of which 4 were cancer, as well as a large portion of his esophagus because the cancer unexpectedly not only grew further down in his stomach but up in his esophagus as well. One more cycle of chemo on Valentines day, then scan time again on the 27th. We meet with his team the very next morning on the 28th to go over the results. Hopefully, they find he is in remission! He has fought so hard with barely any complaints even though we have had SO many complications, he still fights, just even harder. So let's all keep our fingers crossed 🤞 and we now leave it to God. I have full faith and trust in Him. Everyone stop for just 1 minute on February 28th and send a little prayer up for my baby. It's time my family gets some good news for once, so now we are all impatiently waiting 💕

12/23/2022

Levi's Christmas present!!!!!
😭😭😭😭
I'm in love ❤️

09/24/2022

Update on Levi:
Cancer cardiology appointment today. Levi now has a Heart monitor on and next steps for his heart damage is MRI and CT angio. Still fighting the severe fatigue and weight loss, and the mental struggles are getting real! Chemo round 4 on October 4th then scan to show results of the adjuvent chemotherapy then on to have total gastrectomy surgery a couple of weeks following!!! 😬 We are continuing to fight as a family side by side and we are not going to take this lying down! Comorbities of this gastric cancer is poking out its ugly head, but again, we fight together! Day by day, minute by minute, second by second 💯

09/20/2022

I haven't updated for a while, this has been a rough and scary couple of weeks. Cycle #3 of chemo in a few hours and this is one scared momma. Hair is all gone now, chemo is getting harder with some complications, but together as a family we are fighting harder than ever with every being in our bodies. Look at this beautiful baby, this is how I will always see him. My first love, my best friend growing up, and the most beautiful young man inside and out 🥰
Let's give some positive vibes and pray for the doctors over his care that God be with them and guide them every step of the way during the biggest battle of his life!
Amen 🙏

09/11/2022

Matt shaved his beard because his brother is losing his! Love how close my boys are 🥰

09/11/2022

So Levi is now losing all his hair and hasn't felt the best with this round of chemo. Its kicking in hard to me that all this is really happening. We were hoping he wouldn't lose his beard but its leaving too sadly, but hair grows back right! On a good note he got to spend some time with his brothers and sister and uncle for his brother's birthday. We all had a pretty good time together. It's moments like these that mean the most 🥰
We cry together-we laugh together-we fight together!!!!