This was followed by 6 weeks of daily radiation that left me beyond exhausted while caring for a baby at home as well as 2nd degree burns on the breast area. I feel so overwhelmed with exhaustion at times, I cry at times because I feel like I am drowning with nowhere to go, it terrifies me to think it can come back at any time, and yet I know I could not stop because my baby depends on me and I don't want him to sense me struggle. With the help of my family, I’m making it through. Now, I’ll be on hormone therapy for the next 5 years of my life, having monthly injections that are unbelievably painful and leave me knocked out in bed for days at a time. I’m in induced menopause already, which comes with its challenges. I’ll be starting another therapy for 2 years as well. The physical, mental and emotional battle that is cancer is so overwhelming at times. I am often fearful of not being here to see my son grow, so I’ll do all I can to make sure I’m staying here to live a wholesome and happy life with my family. This is my story but there’s tons of other women like me out there fighting with all they’ve got.

I believe this happened for me and not to me. I believe it’s our biggest obstacles that carry the biggest lessons. I chose to see the rainbow at the end of the rainfall and to choose to be a better version of me through this. I want to help other women in similar situations because I understand how difficult it is to live with cancer while raising a tiny human that fully depends on you. The emotional pain is the hardest, and I want to help ease some of the pain but I need your help. If our paths ever crossed, it would mean the world to me to have your support on this cause. Cancer is not only a disease that touches you, it touches your loved ones as well, and knocks them over too. Through donations, cancer research has advanced SO much in the last 5-10 years. Many lives are now saved because of people’s generosity. This advance in reaserch can mean so much, this can mean that a new mommy gets to live to raise her baby. Every life matters. One in 8 women will have breast cancer, that's a huge number still. 

Love, Andy