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A note from her family: Remembering Sarah

Friends:

Heaven has a new angel for all of us. Sarah fought courageously and inspired many, and all of us are incredibly touched at the outpour of support and kind words from her friends near and far. Please see below for plans to celebrate Sarah's life, and how you can contribute to her honor.

Many thanks,
Sarah's family

A celebration of Sarah's life has been tentatively scheduled for 2 pm on June 18th at the Deer Creek Overlook in Rocks State Park, Street, MD.
http://www.deercreekoverlook.com/Map.html

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to:
Sarah Stump Streett Scholarship Foundation
Sun Trust Bank
221 South Main St.
Bel Air, MD 21014

Catching Up

I'm more then half way through my radiation treatments. As of today I have 4 left out of 15. they are going well and i really have been dodging the side effects. No burns on my head or hair loss on the radiation sites. the only two things I am dealing with are not being able to taste everything, which I HATE, and the steroids making it really hard to sleep. I've been waking up every morning at 5:00 and not being able to get back to sleep.

We had a wonderful Easter, Hub's Sister was here and she got all kinds of things done. I now can see my laundry room floor and she cooked and organized everything I needed organizing. Let me tell you she is a life saver. She just jumps in and goes to it. It was so warm we spent a good part of the day outside and she planted all my out door porch flower containers, they look so pretty. It was a big help. The flowers were all donated by Little E's school, So they all are so special to us.

I am over whelmed by the love and support we are all receiving everyday from family, friends, and my on-line blog community. I am so blessed by all of the prayer and support our family has been given in the last few weeks and I am so thankful for all the help offered.

Last picture is by Miss H

Some things

A year ago when I was rediagnosed with breast cancer I was diagnosed with stage IV Metastatic breast cancer. which basically means my cancer had spread outside my chest area to other parts of my body. I kept this pretty private do to the girls and tried to make it as easy on them as possible only making some details known to them, to protect them in a way.

Lately my scans have been good I have had some set backs but I believed I was on the up swing. I had another round of scans last week and my scans reviled a shadow that my doctor wanted to check out a little closer. So I had a brain scan on Friday morning, by two oclock my doctor called me with the results. The cancer has spread to my brain in one spot on the right side in the back of my head. I also had questionable spots throuout my brain.

So this has been really hard to soak in. It's not an easy thing to process. Yes I have cancer, in my brain what will happen to me? So I start radiation to my head tomorrow, and they will treat me for two weeks everyday. Then we will work on the spot of cancer if it needs to be treated. they will stop my chemo until then, they don't like to mix the two together.

So that is what we are facing right now, it's hard and scary and I hate sharing it all with you, but you are all a big part of me and my recovery and my blog has pulled me through some really tough times. So I thought I could share this with all of you.

Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support

Sarah

Speading The News

 
I had chemo yesterday so I have spent almost two days laying around watching bad TV. I have about had it. Hopefully I will be up and about more tomorrow. When I was at chemo though all the infusion nurses were coming up to me and telling me they knew all about my scan I had and how good the results were. My Doctor who is just about the best guy I have ever met who is so good at his job and is so caring and wonderful. Well one of the nurses said that the day they got the results of my scan he went into the infusion center to tell everyone. One nurse who is one of my favorites told me he was practically skipping around the unit and telling everyone about my progress. That really made me happy, It's really hard to gage how well you are doing by just having a short conversation on the phone. Skipping around the infusion room is good news, spectacular news in fact. So as I sit here on the couch in my soft warm sweats and polor fleece with a blanket on my lap I am smiling to myself everytime I think of it. My Doctor skipping around the chemo unit telling everyone my good news.

A quick update

 
I wanted to give everyone a quick update. Monday I had a PET scan to monitor my progress on the new drug I am getting called Eribulin. It's always a nervous time for me and it seems like the longest wait in the world. My doctor is very good about not sitting on good news, so if he calls I know it's going to be positve. He called yesterday afternoon and said that my scan showed a lot of improvement compared to my last scan (my last scan I back tracked quite a bit). So it's good news all around, the scan showed a measurable improvement in all the areas that I have cancer. After I hung up the phone my Hubs gave me a big hug and I lost it. Crying tears of joy. I felt the relief washing over me as I cried in his arms. Knowing that everything I am doing has a purpose and that it's working, it's really working.