Hi!

Thank you all so much for caring about my health and wanting to walk alongside my family and I as we go through this journey. All of the encouragement, texts, calls, flowers, treats, etc mean more to me than you could ever know. I know I haven't called or texted many of you back, but please know that I have read everything and REALLY appreciate your thoughts, prayers and love.

This was not a journey I signed up for, and I'll be honest that at times I feel scared to death. Other times, though, I feel at peace knowing that this is my new reality, and I'm going to tackle this one day at a time.

I know that when things like this happen, many people around them don't know the "right" words to say, or how to act. For me, it's not a taboo subject, and it just feels good to know people care. So please don't feel weird or think you need to avoid the subject (although sometimes I'm talking through my tears).

Kenny and I just went to a genetic counseling appointment. Since I'm under 40 th...

We just spent about 3 hours at the surgeon's office and just arrived home. We got many of our questions answered, and at least have a better idea of the road we are about to travel.

She told us that the clinical diagnosis is Stage 2b Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. She also guesses that Kimberly has actually had cancer in her body for "years". The MRI showed that there is more cancer in the breast than the tumor which was biopsied.

We have a big choice to make: have surgery (mastectomy) first followed by chemotherapy, or begin chemotherapy first with surgery after.

The surgeon thinks that perhaps chemotherapy can shrink up the tumor in the breast and help with the cancer in the lymph nodes paving the way for a much easier surgery afterwards.

So, the next step is to meet with the oncologist to get his opinion, and then we can make a decision.

Also, since Kimberly is under 40, they want her to go to a genetic specialist on Thursday to run some tests for a certain gene which will determin...

Hi all,

Thanks for signing up to get updates about Kimberly's progress!

She feels overwhelmed already with the amount of encouragement coming in and the amount of people interested in following along with her on her journey. I want to thank each of you for this because it makes her so happy.

There's not much news to report yet. Yesterday was her MRI. If you didn't know it already, Kim is highly claustrophobic, so I wasn't sure how she'd react to being shoved into a tube. Well, she handled it great! She actually said she could feel everyone praying for her... so cool.

Now, we wait until the doctor's appointment on Monday to hear about the results...

More later!

Kenny