It has been 4 years and 8 months since I was diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer. Staying alive is my biggest task now and that involves numerous trips to Barnes Hospital/Washington University, a 3 hour and 30 min drive from home.
Some of my time fillers include:
79 treatments
3 gamma knife procedures
5 rounds of radiation to my adrenal gland
1 round of radiation to my shoulder
2 thoracentesis procedures to remover fluid from my lungs
1 breast MRI
3 complete spine MRIs
9 heart MRIs
7 echocardiograms
13 brain MRIs
11 whole body bone scans
16 chest/ab/pelvic CT scans
These numbers will go up in the next two weeks. (It’s a wonder I don’t glow in the dark from all the scans. )
Dave and I will make 4 trips to St Louis in 5 weeks. I am so grateful to have a life partner who holds steadfast to the “in sickness and in health” part of our wedding vows. I would not still be here without his support.
I am not in control. 
Praying for you and your husband. Truly we are “not in control”. Thank you for sharing this mess we call MBC and for your expressions of faith and gratitude. Cathy Knowles
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Hello Heidi. Continued prayers and thoughts from the Behl Family. My cancer journey is continuing. I’m still at Barnes West every three weeks. Receiving Keytruda and Lynparza for another year in clinical trial. My body is receiving the treatment well. I’m blessed. No restrictions or side effects. Team is seeing great effecacy. Be strong, stay strong. Take care and God bless.
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