F*$k cancer, we've got you, Jen!

A bit of an update, I received the results of my surgery a couple weeks ago and its taken me awhile to get my head around the change in treatment plan. I had been looking forward to being at the tail end of all of this with only a month of radiation left to go, but unfortunately, my results from surgery weren't as good as I had hoped. Though the chemo killed a lot of the cancer, 30% still remained in my breast and lymph nodes (which they removed during surgery but it's been there this whole time so some risk that it could be elsewhere). And so as of today, I'm starting an oral chemo regime that will last for the next six months. It will be two doses a day for 2 weeks on, one week off for six months in total. Then a short break and on to a month of radiation which the boys and I will travel to Christchurch for. To say I was gutted would be an understatement.... 😭

But the chemo did kill heaps of the tumors and the doctors are still talking about a cure. And a little bit of silver lining, my hair has started to grow back and shouldn't fall out with this drug. Slowly recovering from surgery and past the worst of that, though still more physio to get my range of motion back. Fingers crossed, if I get some good days and mini breaks from chemo this summer that I can be back on my paddleboard and out with the kids.

As always, huge thanks to my friends and family- couldn't fight this without you.