To God be the Glory!

 I am a 30 year old young lady, healthy, very active, and in shape but on March 29, 2011 I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. I'm one of the healthiest people that my friends and family know, so none of us expected for this to happen to me. I was shocked but I believe with every being in me that my God will NEVER give me more than I can handle. April 26, 2011 I had the tumor removed, the tumor that was removed had a lot of cell division so I was told that I needed Chemotherapy and Radiation. Since then, my life has been slightly different but change is good, it makes us grow as people, making us better to and for one another. This has not only had an effect on me but on my family and friends as well. I love that it's teaching my people to be grateful for what God has already done no matter how small we may think it to be. We get so caught up sometimes that we forget about how blessed we already are until we see someone else's situation that may be different from our own. We are blessed.

In order to start my chemotherapy sessions, I had to get a port surgically placed into the left side of my chest. I got that done on Monday, June 6th. It was a very easy procedure and only had a very small amount of soreness afterwards. On this past Monday June 13, 2011 I started part of my first chemotherapy session with an injection of Herceptin. It took a couple of hours but was painless with no side affects. On Tuesday June 14th, I got the "real stuff", the actual chemotherapy medicine (Taxotere and Carboplatin). These two are the medicines that are going in to actually "kill" any cancer cells that may be floating around. So I'm sure you can image how strong they are.

The actual process again was painless. It just took a long time, since it was my first round of chemo, they wanted to give it to me slowly. I was getting "juiced up" (that's my name for it LOL) from 11am until 3:30 pm, so about 4 and a half hours, pretty long. But the people there are so nice that the time went by faster than I expected. More so because I have God on my side and I am super positive about this whole stituation. I was told that I'd be sick for the next 3-4 days and I feel just fine as I sit here and type. I refuse to let this hold me down. I feel a few differences in my body but nothing like what I was told or like what I've seen on tv, or nothing like I imagined it to be. I AM FAITHFUL AND GRATEFUL AND TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!