A few months ago, my neighbor Katja asked me to come over to her house. She told me about her Co-worker Jen who had breast cancer 4 years ago at the young age of 26. She told me she had a blog and shared it with me. Jen's blog was filled with so much information. She had her ups and downs and I felt her blog helped me as I traveled along my journey. Katja then showed me that she created a blog for me in hopes that if I wrote my own feelings/experiences down that it would be helpful to me as well. I was already jotting down my feelings in a word document and I thought of writing a blog but wasn't quite sure if I wanted to share it with the world. But I did write to it and I'm so glad I did. Adding my thoughts even if it was rambling really helped out. So about 3 weeks ago, I decided to check out Jen's blog to see if she posted anything new. Unfortunately, she did. Her post was about her friend Jenn who just found out January 16th that she had breast cancer. A link to her blog (Not Jenn's cup of tea) was posted. Sick to my stomach of hearing her news, I quickly went to her blog and read it. It absolutely broke my heart. I don't know how old Jenn is but that doesn't matter, what does is that she has a husband, a young daughter and a whole lot of life ahead of her to live. Cancer is so evil and everyone deserves to live. I decided to reach out to the 1st Jen who then forwarded me her friends e-mail address. I then reached out to Jenn and offered her my support. Turns out she has triple negative breast cancer like me but her's actually spread to her lung and she's in stage 4 whereas I was in stage 2. (stages pretty much determine the size of the tumor.)
The good thing about Jenn is she has a huge support system and to me that was the absolute most important part of fighting and beating cancer. I also believe 100 % that all your prayers helped considerably. Tomorrow Jenn starts her 1st day of chemo. Even though I don't know her very well yet, I hope to soon. So please if you can, please say a small prayer for her tomorrow morning as she begins the most difficult part of fighting cancer....chemo.
Her chemo starts around 9:15 am and it should last for 3-4 hours. I'll be thinking of her all day.
Thank you again for everything. I'll keep you all posted.
Love you, Jen
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