Amy's Journey – Buying Time

At age 51 and as a single mom with two teens, I have metastatic breast cancer. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to buy more time. This is my journey.

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  • For the first time, my boys are with their dad for Christmas. I’ve never been away from them for the holidays and the house is quiet. It’s probably good for them because I have no energy and I don’t want to ruin their Christmas. I start my immunotherapy medication next week, when it arrives. I…

  • I met with the radiation oncologist today, Dr. Lin. He is so awesome! He is the first person to take time to go over my scans with me. There is a large mass that has and is eating my pelvic bone, a large mass doing the same to my sternum (I can see and feel…

  • When she said the pain I had been dealing with for 4 months in my hip was metastatic breast cancer, I was speechless. I had been cancer free for 9 years, so long that it wasn’t really on my radar. My first thought was, my boys! My next thought was how am I going to…