We had two appointments on November 1. The first with my oncologist, the second with my surgeon.
The good news is I’m cleared to wear deodorant again. You’re welcome.
The bad news is my cancer is not dead. Live cancer cells were found in my lymph nodes. That means my cancer has some resistance to the chemo, or hell, that I just went through.
I’ll start radiation soon and will still have six-ish weeks of that. Dr. Ansari is having us meet with an oncologist in Chicago, at Northwestern, to get his opinion on next steps. That may include doing more chemo through a clinical trial.
So I’ve got the most aggressive cancer possible in the breast and the “standard of care” in the U.S. didn’t kill it.
The last two days have been difficult as we have had to alter our expectations and start thinking about a new stage in the battle. But we’ll get through this. God is with us. And we are in this together.
The picture above is of the four of us reading from the Bible during our church’s cover-to-cover Bible reading. It was an amazing way to end our day.
Kimberly Beats Cancer 
We love all of you so much and I am so thankful that you are all putting your hope in the only one God that can make any sense of all of this mess….I am so glad that we can trust in Him – when we can’t see at all. I was reading in Acts 10 today about God hearing our prayers…I’m so glad that He does and that even when we don’t feel it, we can know that He loves us more than any other! The picture of your family reading the word together was encouraging…the battle is raging, but we must continue to fight with prayer, praise and the Word. I pray that you can You can sense Him loving on your whole family today.
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I love you guys. I’m broken with you right now.
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