Not My Story, His Glory is a place where I share stories of God's faithfulness through cancer, treatment, major surgery, living with two ostomies, and the everyday ups and downs of life.
This isn't a story about my strength. It's a story about God's faithfulness.
My prayer is that these stories encourage others to trust Him in every season, find hope in difficult circumstances, and see His hand at work even in the hardest moments.
After surgery, I was taken to HDU – the High Dependency Unit.
I felt pretty groggy, but apart from that, I felt surprisingly okay. I was on some decent pain medication, so at first, I couldn’t feel much. And more than anything, I felt like myself, which was one of the things I had been so unsure about before surgery.
The first night was okay. The next day,...
The original plan after finishing my radiation and chemotherapy tablets was to begin IV chemotherapy a couple of weeks later.
But when the time came, I knew I couldn't do it.
By that point, I was completely exhausted. I had very little energy, my skin still hadn't fully healed, and I was still struggling to keep food down. My body had already been through so much,...
Once I started feeling more like myself after treatment, I found myself reflecting on everything God had done for me.
Not just throughout my cancer journey, but throughout my life.
There were so many things I was thankful for.
God had faithfully walked with me through treatment. He'd surrounded me with incredible people. He had given me peace during some of ...
This one is going to be a tough one to write.
It's definitely the bad and the ugly, but also the unexpected good.
Once my PET scan confirmed there was no spread, I was given the green light to start treatment and met with my oncologist. She explained what the next few months would look like and the side effects I could expect.
She told me that radiation is c...
This happened during one of the most difficult seasons of my life.
We had lost my dad the year before. He’d been struggling for a long time and passed away in October. If I'm being honest, there had already been signs that something wasn't quite right with my health. I was having oc...