Kellie beats cancer

15/03/2025

29/07/2024

Hey hey!! It's been awhile! How are you all doing??

15/03/2024

March 15…. 6 years ago this was a stressful morning. It was snowing and there was a 2 hour delay for the kids school. while we were getting ready I got a phone call from the hospital that the first case cancelled and how fast could we get there? Lots of hugs and kisses to my babies, dropped them off at a friends (so thankful for them!!) lots of deep breaths and off Josh and I went. I don’t think I even had time to think about being nervous…. We checked in and they brought us right back to pre op where all the fun started… the only time I cried was when they thought I had a fever and mentioned postponing! We Talked with my amazing surgeon, got some good meds and off I went to say see ya later to my left breast and the cancer that was growing in it.

Looking back it seems like it was so long ago that I started on the most important ride of my life, and then other days, it seems like it was just yesterday. I can remember the smallest of details from that day, but then I cant remember what I did 3 days ago! LOL

After a very long, and lovely nap, I woke up in recovery and remember thinking that I had to stay positive for my family…. Oddly enough I was happy, I was happy it was over and I wasn’t feeling icky, or really even much pain. I would later realize that was because of the lovely meds they give you , but still even though I was probably pretty high I remember waving to Josh, and my parents when they came in to see me. I remember loving the ginger ale the nurse got for me, and being excited to get some food – the surgery was around 8 hours!



I wont rehash all the things I remember about that day, Im sure most of you are like, oh another post on her anniversary date… blah, blah… yay she is cancer free…. But to anyone who is still in the midst of your journey, starting your journey or helping someone who is going through it , just remember that there is a day where the sun will shine again, and you will laugh and smile, and love…. Your life will forever be changed by this, so choose to embrace it and fight however you can, but please don’t choose to wallow and give up. I truly feel that if I didn’t have my kids it would have been much harder for me to stay positive and fight. I was determined that I would do whatever I could to keep it from traumatizing them any more than it already had.



Since that day there have been multiple surgeries, reactions, chemo, meds, test etc… but each one brought me closer to today March 15,2024



Thank you to everyone who has supported me from the beginning and still checks in on me now, 6 years later. You are my people. You know who you are, and I love you.



6 years cancer free… here’s to at least 6 more!!

26/01/2024

sharing a post from 2020.... so much still is true.... and it blows my mind that now I am coming up on 6 years!!!!

January 26, 2020
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As I am coming up on the anniversary of my diagnosis, it amazes me that it was almost 2 years ago. 2 years ago a diagnosis changed our lives in a way we never imagined. I will never forget sitting in the little room after my mammogram and ultrasound, already knowing in my heart what they were going to tell me, but hoping i was wrong. sitting in there with Josh who came even though i told him id be fine... I remember being told that they suspected cancer and i had to come back in a few days for a biopsy to find out for sure. we asked what the likely hood of it coming back positive was and the dr told us that she thought it was 95-99 percent breast cancer, and the biopsy would help to stage it.....at this point i remember losing it completely, and sobbing....and telling Josh to explain WHY i was so upset..... less than 6 months earlier we lost my cousin to (a different type of) cancer, a couple of weeks after he turned 40....I was 39 at that time, and it was just way too coincidental to me at that time. after the dr was told this, she grabbed my hands, looked at me and said "this is not that kind of cancer, we are catching this early, and the survival rate now is so much better than it used to be...you can beat this" its amazing what you remember about major events whether positive or negative. i dont think i will ever forget that day, or that time in that little room, using up a bunch of kleenex, seeing the fear in joshs eyes and the understanding in the drs eyes. and at that point i think i decided that i was going to be strong, and kick cancers butt....and then started my insane amount of research and appointment scheduling, telling my kids, my parents, my boss, and my coworkers.... the fear of the unknown was honestly the worst. not having ever had any kind of major surgery and now looking at the options for a really major surgery and future surgeries and trying not to freak out about everything. dont get me wrong, there were many car rides, and closet screaming and crying and being angry, becuase really, you are not human if you dont have those strong reactions and emotions..... just been thinking about everything, and wanted to share since i havent really shared alot lately.....
if youve read this far thanks, for following me, and reading my rants, and such. im sure over the next few months there will be more of these posts as i get closer to the 2 year mark ......

02/12/2023

Chance encounters seem to happen at the most interesting times. Last night was one of them. Josh was meeting a couple of guys last night to pick something up and I tagged along... after an entertaining little bit the wife came out and basically made me go inside and warm up and hang with her.... she is a super sweet lady, and somehow during the conversation she mentioned the name of a dr. who is my surgical oncologist. I of course told her how much I love this dr and then we shared our stories (because thats what you do in this club)
I told her how I just graduated and hit my 5 year mark and she was so happy!!! and then she shared her story with me, and she is almost at her 3 year mark and is doing great! She was diagnosed and went through surgery and radiation during covid so her experience was really different. she is a bit older than I am, but it always intrigues me how its almost an instant bond between people who have gone through breast cancer. we just understand.
when the boys were finished and everything was loaded up she gave me a hug and said she was so glad that i had tagged along and we were able to meet.

I dont know if she is on facebook , but she will be in my prayers as are all the other people I have met along the way.....

16/11/2023

Ok, so I hit my 5 year mark in march of 2023. That was crazy because it really doesn’t seem like it has been 5 years already! Today I saw my surgeon (surgical oncology) who I love, who told me today that I have officially graduated! I no longer need to see her every year. There is an excitement but also some apprehension about this. Excited because yes! I made it 5 years, and so far so good. But apprehension because even though it was only once a year, there was that security, knowing that if there was something that I had missed she would potentially catch it at my appointment, my safety net, my security blanket…. Its strange as the years pass after diagnosis, treatment etc.. you have less and less appointments which is a positive thing, but it makes you feel a little bit like a ship without an anchor, floating around .

So anyway, Yay for me! 5 years and counting!

10/11/2023

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