Rebecca
“I can't necessarily say cancer has been a blessing in my life, however; I have found many rainbows in the storm and hope to help be a beacon of light for those who are lost in the beginning and throughout their diagnosis.”
2020 Update
In December 2020 I had started seeing a difference in my breast - it looked more like inflammatory. I was confused, so I went to my oncologist. Ended up I had stage 3B inflammatory triple negative breast cancer. I just finished my treatment that included 13 rounds of two types of chemotherapy and one immunotherapy for 13 weeks. Then I had a mastectomy followed by 33 rounds of radiation. I have two more immunotherapy left at this point. Then I go through a plethora of scans to assure the therapy worked.
I can't necessarily say cancer has been a blessing in my life, however; I have found many rainbows in the storm and hope to help be a beacon of light for those who are lost in the beginning and throughout their diagnosis.
2013 Story
Hi my name is Rebecca. I am a mother of a wonderful 9 year-old, autistic child, a loving wife to a wonderful husband, a sister, an aunt, a friend and a metastatic breast cancer patient.
The word metastatic first came into my vernacular June 18, 2013. Well actually, I was told at that moment I would be lucky if it wasn't at least stage two. A month later I found out after scans it was stage 4 from the very beginning. My son had an 18 month well-baby-check the next day and was flagged for autism. We started our treatment the same week of each other and with in-home therapy 6 hours a day, 5 days a week and for me chemotherapy, 12 Rounds over a course of 5 months.
Over the course of that six months, I had been told that I would make it maybe two months - two years, no more than five. That would leave me not seeing my son even enter kindergarten. I was mortified. The treatment center that I was at didn't quite treat me very well, kind of like a cattle. So, I went out for a second opinion. It saved my life. Here I am a little over eight years later telling you my story. But that's not the end of my story... but wait there's more LOL.
After that initial chemotherapy I was just taking a pill. I had an oophorectomy. I took a different type of pill but hormonal for post menopause and was great, N.E.A.D. ( no evidence of active disease) for seven and a half years.
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