Monday, September 10, 2018

We Hate Cancer!!

Nicole, Me, and Allison
Cancer sucks! I wish I could come up with a more eloquent way to phrase that thought, but that’s the cold, honest truth. It’s relentless, uncaring, and attacks ruthlessly.

This week cancer is one again attacking our family hard. On Sunday our precious sister-in-law Allison lost her beloved grandmother to pancreatic cancer. Mrs. Christine Paris fought so hard over the past few months and it was amazing to see her family rally around to care for her during this battle. Our faith tells us that even though cancer claimed her earthly life, she received the ultimate healing and stepped into the presence of her Savior for a joyful, pain free eternity. The Paris family is devastated over the loss of their matriarch and we ask that you lift them up in prayers as they prepare to say goodbye to Mrs. Christine, a strong, beautiful woman who will be deeply missed.

Over the past two months or so we’ve also been processing the news that our selfless, caring, funny, all around amazing father has prostate cancer. Dad will undergo a radical prostatectomy tomorrow, September 11th. His cancer is of an “aggressive” nature, but with prostate cancer even the aggressive forms are slow growing, so our hope is surgery will be curative and no radiation or additional therapy will be needed. For Nicole and I it’s been very emotional; we have every hope that he’s going to come out of surgery fine and that this will just be a bump in the road, but we remember watching what our Mom went through and it’s scary to even think of the possibility of anything similar happening to our Daddy.


Nicole, Dad, and Me
Our Dad has faced many challenges in his life; the sickness and loss of our Mom, losing both his parents, too many orthopedic surgeries to count, watching his daughters go through total gastrectomies, and watching me, his baby, almost die last year. He’s handled it all with so much grace and his signature sense of humor, so we know he’ll tackle this battle the same way. He also has our wonderful stepmom Rhonda there to care for him and push him to return to normal as soon as possible.

Please lift up our family, our sister-in-law Allison and the Paris family this week. Cancer is strong, but faith and prayers are much stronger.

Much Love,
Jessica & Nicole



4 comments:

  1. Love you girls so much! Praying for you and your family. You girls are 2 of the strongest women I've ever known. You are both inspiring. I just know your Daddy is going to be OK.
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    Brooke R .

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  2. Love yall so much! Thank you for everything! Cancer sucks!

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  3. We recently found out that my mother has the CDH1 gene mutation (she has stage 4 stomach cancer). I am 33 with a young daughter. My husband and I are hoping to start my genetic testing process but we are at a bit of a loss about what sort of insurance(s) we should look into before we start the testing since we may not be able to get insurance after the results are in if I am positive for the mutation as well. Any advice you have about what you looked into or wish you had gotten before you got tested would be greatly appreciated!!
    -Amanda

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    1. Hi Amanda, thanks for reaching out! I think the most important thing to make sure you have in place prior to testing would be life insurance, once a genetic mutation is on record it can be difficult to secure life insurance for an affordable price. We have even discussed making sure our son has a good policy on place by the time he's 18 and getting ready to test.

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