by admin | Feb 3, 2016 | Christian, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Testimony
It has taken me a while to write this update, this will be the final update on my wife’s battle because she went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on December 19, 2015. I had no idea how hard it would be to write this, it’s been a little over 6 weeks...
by admin | Nov 12, 2015 | Christian, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Testimony
Since my last update we have had some serious ups and downs, for the last 6 weeks it has been consistently down. She is back on oxygen and struggling to breathe, her right arm is swelled to 4 times the size of the left and the skin mets are spreading rapidly, it...
by admin | Aug 5, 2015 | Quiet Time Shared
This is not for the benefit of the one who curses you or mistreats you, this is for you. Because if you allow the roots of the tree of resentment, hatred and mistrust to take a hold in your heart, you may never be able to completely kill it. I’m sure at some point you...
by admin | Jul 17, 2015 | Christian, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Testimony
Today we start chemo again at a reduced dose, we will be going from 3,000 mg. of Xeloda a day to 2,000 mg. a day but staying with the 2 weeks on and 1 week off. We are also reducing the Navelbine from 3 weeks on and 1 week off to 2 weeks on and 1 week off to correlate...
by admin | Jul 14, 2015 | Christian, Inflammatory Breast Cancer
The one thing I didn’t mention was that while my wife was on the chemo that seemed to help the inflammatory breast cancer grow, the cancer had started to put pressure on her lung which left her on oxygen and also put pressure on her brachial plexus which caused her...
by admin | Jul 3, 2015 | Christian, Inflammatory Breast Cancer
So while we were searching for who we should be seeing next, I received a Facebook message from a woman who I had never met or heard of before and her name was Edie. Her message to me said, “Hi Bernie, I sent your wife the following message last Saturday and she has...
by admin | Jul 2, 2015 | Christian, Inflammatory Breast Cancer
The new chemo, or actually the return to the first chemo, started early May and after the 2nd treatment we were expecting to see something…and we did, it seemed like this chemo was helping the cancer grow. The skin mets (metastasized cancer that comes up on the skin...
by admin | Jul 1, 2015 | Christian, Inflammatory Breast Cancer
We actually got the news on the way to my friends surprise 50th Birthday party and we were picking up his friends from a hotel near the airport. We had just pulled in to the parking lot of the hotel when the surgeon called with the news. We only had about 5 minutes to...
by admin | Jun 29, 2015 | Christian, Inflammatory Breast Cancer
I haven’t written a blog in a while, mostly because life has been kind of hectic and crazy. I can tell you that if it wasn’t for our faith in God, our love for each other, our amazing church family who has surrounded us in this battle and God bringing amazing people...
by admin | Sep 11, 2014 | Christian, Testimony
A friend of mine invited me to come to a men’s Christian experiential retreat back in February of 2011, I signed up for the next retreat they had scheduled and it was in April. The instructions were pretty specific, arrive between 5:45PM and 6:00PM and anyone that...
