From Kelly:

“A pimple became a bump.  The bump became lumps. The lumps became beasts.  But as Buddhism suggests ‘if one sees a monster do not run, instead ask what it can teach you.’  Well, the monsters have already taught me more than I wanted to know, and perhaps a few things I needed to.

Who knew navigating a life-threatening disease was a full-time+ job?  The past few weeks have been quite literally non-stop scans, biopsies, consults, ultrasounds, MRI’s, CTs, appointment scheduling, treatment option research, more appointment scheduling, plus the simple little task of learning an entirely new goddamn language.  The scariest diagnostics were explained to Steve & I on Tuesday February 6th.  The tumor sizes and aggressiveness would require pre- and post- surgical drug therapies, and then likely radiation.  Quite a gut punch to someone who’s avoided the Disease-Care Industrial-Complex like the plague.  But, after the initial shitstorm I’ll admit to feeling pretty badass.  I also feel encouraged about putting together a care plan and provider team that feels true to me, balanced between conventional and alternative medicine.   So bright and early Monday (2/26) morning is the next step, targeted immunotherapy.  Bring on the MoJo DoJo juice, sans cytotoxicity (for now)!”