Back in June 2014, as many
of you know, I experienced something that literally shifted my entire life. To
recap very briefly: my kidneys had shut down, I was on dialysis for 5 days,
bilateral stints were placed in my kidney tubes to help them recover and allow
them to return back to operating at 100%.
I thought that was all I had going on, but after a CT Scan & Ultrasound were performed the doctors discovered I had a large mass covering my kidneys, liver, bladder and several pieces around my lungs. They did a biopsy, sent it off to a specialist and when the results came back I was diagnosed with STAGE 3 TESTICULAR GERM CELL CANCER!
After spending over 95 days in the hospital and undergoing 5 months of chemotherapy treatments the doctors declared that they could not find any trace of cancer in my body! SHOUTING NEWS INDEED!
After that experience and by the help of God I was blessed to be able to write my first book entitled "Glory After This" where I was able to go in-depth and talk about the challenges, the ups & downs, the miracles, then show the faith it took to pull through and then sum it all up with the hope I never lost. I remember 2015 was an awesome year, I had no complications whatsoever and I wasn't on any medications.
During the early part of this year around February 2016, I started having pain in my body again. I contacted my oncologist and after going in for testing he informed me that the CANCER HAD RETURNED! In other words the enemy had peeked his head back in my life. Satan had come back to attempt to distract me and knock me off course, but little did he know that all this was working for my good, so I was praising God in advance! Due to the return of this cancer I had to begin chemotherapy treatments and this time it was a much stronger regimen. I started my first round of chemo in April 2016. With each round of chemo I had to be admitted into the hospital for 1-2 weeks to undergo treatments.
Since April I've received 3 rounds of chemotherapy. I had a scheduled surgery in July where the doctors went in to remove the tumor/mass however there were complications. The tumor had grown much larger than they expected between the last CT Scan and the surgery so instead of trying to remove the tumor and potentially doing more harm than good they decided to start me back on chemotherapy to help shrink and reduce the size of the tumor. I finished the most recent round of chemotherapy last week.
Over the last several months I have experienced so much. I've had sleepless nights, pain in body, tears flowing constantly. Never tears of sadness but tears of JOY, HOPE and HAPPINESS all because I trust God and I trust his process. All I can do is think back of where God has brought me from, I have no doubts or reservations that he's here to perform an encore in my life!
#GloryAfterThisPt2 #TeamDestiny
I thought that was all I had going on, but after a CT Scan & Ultrasound were performed the doctors discovered I had a large mass covering my kidneys, liver, bladder and several pieces around my lungs. They did a biopsy, sent it off to a specialist and when the results came back I was diagnosed with STAGE 3 TESTICULAR GERM CELL CANCER!
After spending over 95 days in the hospital and undergoing 5 months of chemotherapy treatments the doctors declared that they could not find any trace of cancer in my body! SHOUTING NEWS INDEED!
After that experience and by the help of God I was blessed to be able to write my first book entitled "Glory After This" where I was able to go in-depth and talk about the challenges, the ups & downs, the miracles, then show the faith it took to pull through and then sum it all up with the hope I never lost. I remember 2015 was an awesome year, I had no complications whatsoever and I wasn't on any medications.
During the early part of this year around February 2016, I started having pain in my body again. I contacted my oncologist and after going in for testing he informed me that the CANCER HAD RETURNED! In other words the enemy had peeked his head back in my life. Satan had come back to attempt to distract me and knock me off course, but little did he know that all this was working for my good, so I was praising God in advance! Due to the return of this cancer I had to begin chemotherapy treatments and this time it was a much stronger regimen. I started my first round of chemo in April 2016. With each round of chemo I had to be admitted into the hospital for 1-2 weeks to undergo treatments.
Since April I've received 3 rounds of chemotherapy. I had a scheduled surgery in July where the doctors went in to remove the tumor/mass however there were complications. The tumor had grown much larger than they expected between the last CT Scan and the surgery so instead of trying to remove the tumor and potentially doing more harm than good they decided to start me back on chemotherapy to help shrink and reduce the size of the tumor. I finished the most recent round of chemotherapy last week.
Over the last several months I have experienced so much. I've had sleepless nights, pain in body, tears flowing constantly. Never tears of sadness but tears of JOY, HOPE and HAPPINESS all because I trust God and I trust his process. All I can do is think back of where God has brought me from, I have no doubts or reservations that he's here to perform an encore in my life!
#GloryAfterThisPt2 #TeamDestiny
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