Angie's Battle, God's Victory!

Angie’s surgeon called today (April 29th) and already received the pathology report from yesterday and it’s BENIGN!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🙏🙏🙏 Also she’s feeling really well from the procedure and resting comfortably. Another great answer to prayers! Thank you for your prayers!

Just a quick update: This week things changed a bit (again) because the original surgeon had a death in the family and the biopsy was done today--Wednesday, April 28th by another surgeon.  The pelvic biopsy went smooth. Angie did wonderful and is now home resting. The surgeon said everything looked fine and he thinks it will be benign. However, pathology should have the results by next week. Surgeon felt the treatment starting next week --port surgery (Mon) and chemo (Tues) should be on schedule still. Praise that she was able to get this done besides the challenges! Praise that it didn't look cancerous during the procedure. Please pray that Angie will get some good rest and stay comfortable. Pray that she will heal quickly and pain/discomfort will minimal. Also please keep her in your thoughts and prayers next week as she has to have another surgical procedure early Monday and then start chemo Tuesday.  Thank you for continuing to pray, share good thoughts, and love :)  ~Julie

One of the many lessons this adventure is teaching us is-- flexibility. Often times we like to know 'the plan' but when the plan needs to keep changing the ability to trust God and take the next step applies. There has been a lot of challenges this week with lots of appointments and rescheduling but we have a new outline. When Angie received her cancer diagnosis, she was also told there was a thickening in her uterine wall. Since the breast cancer took priority --the uterus was put on a brief hold. The hope was it would self-correct after stopping hormone replacement medicines. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. On Monday, Angie had another pelvic ultrasound which showed the same results. Therefore after consulting with her team--she will have a change in schedule for chemo treatment. Now it looks like she will be having a surgical procedure to get a biopsy of the uterus followed by a DNC. Back in March the doctor tried to get a biopsy in the office but it was unsuccessfu

 It started early on a Sunday morning (March 7th). Angie noticed a lump. It was probably nothing...but still. Monday she called to see the doctor. This lead to a biopsy and mammogram.  On March 29th, she was told it was breast cancer. A small miracle happen--she was seen by a great breast surgeon 3 hours later to get moving on next steps. We were told it was aggressive--on a scale 1-3-it's a 3. The size was moderately small less than 2cm. But still-- it was cancer. April 1st she would have an MRI and additional testing done. She met next with the oncologist (April 8th) who explained it's "Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)." Chemotherapy --the harshest kind, surgery, radiation would need to happen. That day was a hard day to hear all of this.  Apparently, breast cancer will typically test positive for estrogen, progesterone, or HER2 receptors but with TNBC those are all locked so it limits treatment options. After her oncologist presenting Angie's case to the tu