Prayer Request for Wife

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I am a frequent poster on this board. My wife has a mass in her breast. She is 37, and we have three very small children. The biopsy is tomorrow. We will find out if it is cancer or benign growth on Thursday.

Would appreciate a prayer for a great result...or the strength to move forward if it is not.
 
I will pray for you, your wife, and your family.

Please PM me if you have any questions or if you just want someone to talk to.
 
Thoughts and prayers with your wife, you and your family.

No matter what, all of you, will get through this...that said, my heart hopes for the best result form the biopsy later today. Please feel free to PM me if you guys need anything.
 
Thank you very much for the thoughts and prayers. Will update on Thursday as to what we find out.
 
Prayers for your wife and your family.
I helped a few friends in this situation, 2 are now cancer surviors the other was non cancer, I had a scare not long ago but it was fibrisitc (sp) and went away.
Prayers are powerful and keep positive.
 
It is Thursday night. We received bad news today. It is cancer.

My wife will have surgery Monday, and radiation treatments after that. Don't know if chemo will be prescribed yet. She is doing well considering. The surgeon seems to be quite optimistic, which has helped greatly.

Continued prayers would be very much appreciated. I have no doubt that she will prevail.
 
I'm sorry to hear the news ...

Keep positive, and support her 100% during the fight she is going through.

I know she will prevail. The will of a mother can be a powerful thing.

I will keep you and your family in my thoughts ...
 
I am sorry the news was not good.
Keep strong , keep postive and keep praying.
Like I mentioned I have some friends that beat breast cancer and love and support along with medical treatments did wonders.
Continued prayers.
 
Thank you again for your continued prayers. My wife has been blessed with tremendous support and is being strong and corageous.

WIll update on Monday post-surgery, when we find out more.
 
I am sorry that you and your wife got that news, but the quick surgery and plans for followup are so important. My wife is in her 7th year of fighting breast cancer, and so far, so good.
 
Thank you all. The surgery is done. The tumor is gone, for that we are thankful. However, one of her lymph nodes is cancerous which means Stage II cancer.

Still, the doctors are all very confident they can cure this at this point. She will have more tests and we see the Oncologist Monday. He will likely prescribe radiation and chemo therapies.

My wife is strong. She has three babies to live for. She will prevail.

Will update when I get further pertinent info. Much appreciate your continued prayers and support.
 
Radiation and chemo will strike hard at the cancer. Keep the faith. The doctors and therapies are very very good today.
 
Continued prayers for your wife and you. As a single parent, the will to live for my children saw me through many adversities. She will find strength she never knew she had. God Bless the family.
 
My thoughts and prayers are with you, your wife and your family.

My mom is a breast cancer survivor so I can understand what you are going through. I'm so sorry that you and your wife have to go through this, but it will make your family stronger.

She can get through this just like my mother did. Take care and I will keep praying for you all.
 
It has been a week since my last post. One helluva week. I really appreciate the prayers and encouragement offered on this board -- a truly unique place.

Coming out of surgery with the discovery of lymph node involvement was a heavy blow, because the doctors felt there was a miniscule chance of that being the case. That's the bad news.

The good news is that all of the subsequent test results have been the best we could hope for. Only one of sixteen lymph nodes involved. No cancer can be detected anywhere else in her body. None. Nowhere. Her team of doctors have been truly outstanding.

The coming months will be challenging, but we are ready to do what needs to be done. Chemo is up next. Three months of that. Followed by a course of radiation therapy, schedule unknown until later.

As many of you can attest, this hits you like a bolt of lightning from nowhere, and its implications ripple out into all aspects of your life very rapidly. You have no choice but to very quickly adapt, learn and fight. It shines a bright light on your support system of friends and family -- we are blessed that the brightness has revealed that we were correct in our assumptions that our support system was indeed special.

One other note. Her oncologist revealed to her that her cancer graded a 9 of 9 on the "aggressiveness" scale, and that, undetected for another year or so, it very well could have been too late. She caught it herself when she had to.

We are indeed thankful for this blessing.

Will update as treatment begins in the next 10-14 days. Thanks again for your continuing prayers. They have been most helpful.

She will prevail.
 
I am so glad she caught it and that she has a good man to stand at her side through the battle. All the best, I stand with you both, and you will succeed.
 
Best wishes for your wife, your three babies, and you. It sounds like the docs & your wife have it well in hand.
My Mom survived cancer for 17 years without a problem, and that was with technology from 30 years ago.
 
Buddy, I just got to this post by accident and read about what is going on. I know how much you love your wife and God sees that and what you are doing for her to help her. I will pray for her get completely cured! She has you and three babies to live for!!! :) :)
 
I also will keep your wife and your family in my prayers. I have no doubt that her attitude will remain good, which means a heck of a lot, and that your support and love will inspire her when the going gets tough.

My best to all of you.
 
Well, I guess it's been 5 months(!) since I have posted an update. It's been quite hard to muster the combination of time, energy and enthusiasm to do so. It has been a very trying 5 months to put it lightly. I am writing now from the side of her hospital bed.

The last time I posted, my wife was about to enter chemo, having completed her first surgery. This seems like 5 years ago, not 5 months.

Chemo was a real ***** for her. Mentally and physically. She endured all of the typical physical side effects -- fatigue, lack of energy, hair loss, etc. She got a couple of low grade infections to complicate it further. Mentally, it was even worse. She just had a real tough time with it. A lot of anxiety, loss of sleep and general depression.

The good news in all of this at the time was that we held the hope that after it was over, she would essentially be done with treatments. Radiotherapy had been effectively un-presecribed at that point.

Well it didn't quite work out that way.

Towards the end of chemotherapy, we received the results of genetic testing -- testing she underwent due to a long family history of cancer from her father's side of the family. This test is designed to identify abnormal genetic mutations that pre-dispose a per son to certain types of cancers.

We found out that she does indeed possess the genetic traits that predispose her to sky-high rates of recurrence and new cancer developing in certain parts of her body.

So, instead of finishing treatment, we geared up for a whole new set of realities, the first of which was a double-masectomy.

Post-chemo, she had to wait a few weeks to let her body heal before undergoing this major surgery. So we waited, we prayed and we moved forward.

The surgery came, and the procedure itself went well. She has really really great doctors. But some surprises came back in the pathology results.

The doctors expected to find no cancer in the tissue that was removed in the surgery. Unfortunately, that was not the case. there were some lingering cancerous cells, some very close to the skin. So, pending healing time from the surgery, radiation was introduced back into the equation.

Before we could get there, however, she was back in the hospital for a week with redness and swelling on the side the cancer was on. The doctors were sure it's an infection, so into the hospital she went for IV antibiotics. She came home after a week, where we administered the IV for another five days.

After 12 days of very strong IV antibiotics, the infection was not completely gone. So, back into the hospital we went to remove one of the implants that were placed in during the masectomy. That is where we are now, and in fact from where I write this post.

They biopsied the site to be sure it isn't inflammatory cancer (something you really really don't want) and we will get that result tomorrow. None of the doctors think this is likely at all, thank God.

I would love to have you offer prayers that the worst is behind her at this point. She still has to undergo radiation, but that is manageable. Later in the year, assuming everything goes to plan (so far it hasn't!) she will also undergo a hysterectomy to prevent ovarian cancer, which she will likely develop if she doesn't have the procedure.

She has been very scared. But also very strong.

We are blessed that she found it when she did, that we have a wonderful set of family and friends, that we have access to brilliant medical care and that we have God.

Will update again sooner than 5 months from now. Thank you for all of your prayers.
 
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