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I'm celebrating the 1-year anniversary of the cancer diagnosis and softball-sized tumor removal, so I thought it would be a good time for an update. Picture is from my soon-to-be son-in-law's marathon...

Unexpected surprise…
First of all, the surgeon hadn’t really planned to remove the node—let alone three of them (I thought she said two yesterday, but I must’ve misheard)—because one was sitting right...

No real inspiring lessons here... just a really long (but eventful) update.

TLDR: Click to skip to the bottom if you don't want all the deets.

In August, my oncologist scheduled me for two more roun...

Quick Update!

Surprise! Just one day after my last update, I finally received the long-awaited results from my ctDNA test—the one that detects whether cancer cells are sloughing off into the bloodstr...

The last three weeks have been a ride.

I wish every post could be full of uplifting news—encouraging, inspiring, and wrapped in a neat little bow. But to be honest, I’m not even sure what I’m going t...

Maybe you’re wondering why it’s taken me a while to share an update on my health journey.

Honestly, it’s probably because I haven’t really been living the "drama" of cancer lately. I’ve got things to...

Round 5 threw us a curveball!

First, a quick recap of Round 4, part 2:

Saturday 5/13/2023 - Celebrating Mother's Day

I made plans to get a pedicure while Trevan and Nick were at a father's-son's ca...

Someone shared this video with me when they heard I was battling cancer.

It sparked a question that maybe some of my other readers have also been wondering, so I decided to make a post about it.

Ca...

After a much-needed week-long chemo break to celebrate our son’s graduation from BYU and visit family in Utah, I returned to the infusion center on Monday, 5/1/2023 for Round 4. But before diving into...

April 10, 2023

Sitting here for round 3 of chemo.
Round 2 was easier than the first in some ways... and harder in others.

I didn’t get that awful food poisoning feeling again, which was a win—but da...

First, a little back story. If you're just hearing about this, you might want to start with Leslie's Cancer.

3/9/2023 four days before chemo

With chemo on the horizon, Sarah (16) starting spring bre...

This is not going to be your typical Rare Faith Newsletter and it's a little hard to know where to start, but here goes...

In July I began having abdominal pain that I attributed to probable leaky gu...

What an interesting chain of events has unfolded since my last post.
I’ve been sitting with it for a few days now, wondering how I could possibly capture it in a way that does it justice.

Before I up...