2016 – 2024
“I’m hoping this blog will help you feel something.”
In June 2016, weeks after learning she had stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, April started writing here to keep her family and friends close. She kept writing for 8 years: about treatments and scans, about Trevor, Quinn and Colin, about trips and Jimmy Fund walks, and about the hard days and good ones in between.
- Entries
- 70
- Years
- 8
- Photos
- 53
- Messages for April
- 435
Milestones
- Where it beganMy StoryJune 13, 2016On April 11, 2016 I celebrated my 35th birthday. On that day I was a wife of eight years to Trevor and a mother to 5 year old Quinn and 2 year…
- One yearCancer-versaryApril 18, 2017On Patriot’s Day 2016, a naïve me, went to the hospital for what I thought was going to be a routine mammogram only to be told that the results were “very concerning”…
- Six years, and what she learned2,190 …………………..April 18, 2022When I look at the number above, at first glance it does not seem like much, but when I truly think about this number it seems huge. I have now been living…
- Her last entryA Long GoodbyeJune 12, 2024I am so sorry that I have not written a post in over 8 months…….I became very busy with the holidays and with traveling many places for Quinn’s cheer competitions, Colin’s sports…
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