thank you so much we need it because after the radiation she's been bleeding quite a bit and she was already anemic so we were told that it would help stop the bleeding but I'm finding out different and of course this is not my area of expertise at all so I'm pretty not happy about it and we'll be speaking with the doctors today!. I requested Specific labs from her primary care, and we will be having labs done this morning to see what we need to do next.
Thank you for your prayers. We do really need it 🙏🙏🙏
This will open a way for so many to make breakthroughs in a tender relationship before it’s too late. Thank you for the gift of sharing your story, Kathleen.
Kathleen - This cracked me wide open and is an amazingly well written piece. What you’ve shared is nothing short of sacred. The kind of healing that is unplanned, unpolished but profoundly real.
What a profound experience to be both nurse and daughter, strategist and soul enricher. Thank you for putting words to a kind of love and healing you are in the midst of. i'm holding you and your mom in my heart 🫴🫀
yes, I was called to do this work. I was telling someone the other day if everything I went through including the trauma of being a nurse and all the stuff we have to put up with and it's not from the patient. It's from the system itself and the herniated discs in my neck and in my lower back with all of that, if it was just for this to be able to care for my mom, then it was all worth it
This is such a powerful piece. Filled with insight and wisdom. I don’t know what I love more— the pic with your mom and the flowers or the fact that you
finally get to be a daughter.
Thank you for sharing your heart ♥️. Sending love and prayers.
thanks Courtney. It's becoming a little bit more difficult because the radiation is supposed to stop the bleeding and shrink the tumor and it hasn't stopped the bleeding. It's actually made it worse so now when we're into something totally different.. getting labs tomorrow and hoping we don't need a blood transfusion because that means we have to go to the ER and at UF Health you wait for hours and hours. I appreciate your support and I'm back in Nurse mode again which I think I'm always in nurse mode but having to put the daughter on the back burner right now. 🥲
thank you, sir. A very painful journey, but has come with truth and enlightenment as well. It is true that during some of the most painful times in our lives some of the best things come out of it.
I'm praying for you and your mother, Kathleen. My mother got diagnosed with breast cancer stage 2 a couple years ago. After treatment, she has been doing well and it has not been an easy ride. It was tough since I live in a different state.
She lives in WA and I'm here in OK. But at the same time, I kept strong and prayed...a lot. I'll keep you in my prayers during this time.
This made me think about my mom’s journey to cancer and her healing. Jesus took that sickness to the cross we just have to believe and command it to go, in watching my mom’s journey also, she now is healed . Keeping your beautiful mom in 🙏 prayer
thank you. We believe in healing too and I know sometimes he heals in other ways, especially being a registered nurse for 29 years. I don't know why everybody doesn't get healed. We should but we live in a fallen world. Mom just turned 87 and actually she almost died three times in 2021 and that's when I walked away from my career in the hospital so that I could spend more time with her because it's more valuable than money. so God has given us more time because we could've lost her then about three times and then after that she had a stroke and then she had a bypass on her leg and she made it through all of those and then just recently this rectal cancer and the wild thing is when she was in the hospital with the stroke in February 2024 they told us it was internal hemorrhoids and I know it wasn't a G.I. doctor but still. I know that she will be healed in one way or the other. I'm hoping it's the way that she gets to stay here but she is very frail and weak now and I'm doing everything holistic. I can all we did was five gray radiation for five days that's all she could tolerate and that's all I would let her have and hoping it will shrink it down because where it's involved in is not good and so it's in God's hands and of course I'm doing everything I can with the holistic things that I know kill cancer cells and shrink tumors and things like that. So happy to hear about your mom, praise God 🙌
What a beautiful story. Heartwarming and told with love. I'm so glad you were able to connect even more so so on a deeper level. Keeping you and your mom in my prayers. Blessings to you both.❤️❤️
thank you, Bill 🙏 when I write these things I definitely come from the heart and I just say it how it is. I don't mind being vulnerable at all because I think that some of these things will help other people going through similar situations
What a wonderful written piece. Kathleen, I know it's a terrible demanding time for both of you. We spoke about it. And I just wanted to let you know how valuable as a person and healer you are. You helped me more than you know. And I'm grateful to have you as a friend. Thank you and wishing you all the strength you need.
it was one of those that I just sat down because I felt it in my heart after our conversation yesterday and we spoke of things that have not been spoken about without anger and door slamming like I said in the article. After I hit the last character, I got up and sat on the couch and started crying so hard. The emotions just started coming out. You know how writing can do that?
you are a dear friend Daniel, and the feelings are mutual and we've helped each other and that's what it's all about isn't it?
I'm always here for you if you need anything at all, even when I'm going through this I always have room and time for others.
It's what I love to do and it's who I am.
I was told Invision that this was not for me to heal, and I asked why the only thing that was said back was this was not for me to heal. I don't know what that means. The healing is gonna occur to her passing or someone else is going to do it or even God would do it. Even though I got that message I'm still laying hands on her and I'm still doing a lot of things. I've added some more holistic things like mushrooms and things like that and I've got a whole daily regimen that we're doing now and of course I change it if something changes with her.
What a beautiful piece Kathleen. I love "sometimes the thing that could end it all is actually the thing that lets everything begin." I honestly believe a disease, an illness and cancer, forces us to heal the parts we are not willing to explore. It is a second chance. I also love you are healing together. Thank you for being so raw, so real.. bless you both
Karen... where do I begin with you? Without giving a dissertation like I normally give, I'll just say that I don't think I could get through this without you. You have taught me so much and helped prepare me for the radiation treatment all week. And as you know, there was healing each day there was a treatment- healing inside of me and fir mom. The things we worked on.... there's no one else I could've worked on that with. I trust you and you know that is a hard thing for me. We have definitely walked through some fire together. Words can't express how I really feel so there's no sense in me continuing with words. I think you know what you mean to me and you know that I will always be here for you, my friend. Forever! 🤗
Jenny, my dear friend, you have been a godsend for me going through this journey and I know you understand because you lost your mother and your husband to cancer
it's like only those that have walked before us on this path truly understand what it's like
I've been through a lot of trauma and things in my life and this has been something completely different than I've ever experienced and been one of the hardest things I've ever had to go through in my life.
Thank you for the phone calls and text messages early in the morning and into the evening and holding space for me.
I love you for it. I really do. It means the world to me.
Praying for you, and for mom!
thank you so much we need it because after the radiation she's been bleeding quite a bit and she was already anemic so we were told that it would help stop the bleeding but I'm finding out different and of course this is not my area of expertise at all so I'm pretty not happy about it and we'll be speaking with the doctors today!. I requested Specific labs from her primary care, and we will be having labs done this morning to see what we need to do next.
Thank you for your prayers. We do really need it 🙏🙏🙏
This will open a way for so many to make breakthroughs in a tender relationship before it’s too late. Thank you for the gift of sharing your story, Kathleen.
Kathleen - This cracked me wide open and is an amazingly well written piece. What you’ve shared is nothing short of sacred. The kind of healing that is unplanned, unpolished but profoundly real.
What a profound experience to be both nurse and daughter, strategist and soul enricher. Thank you for putting words to a kind of love and healing you are in the midst of. i'm holding you and your mom in my heart 🫴🫀
thank you Bronce! looks like today. I'm starting out as Nurse again but that's OK whatever she needs. I'm here 🙏🙏🙏
I didn't think of it this way but I suppose one could believe you were born to do this work. Indeed much 🙏 to both of us right.
yes, I was called to do this work. I was telling someone the other day if everything I went through including the trauma of being a nurse and all the stuff we have to put up with and it's not from the patient. It's from the system itself and the herniated discs in my neck and in my lower back with all of that, if it was just for this to be able to care for my mom, then it was all worth it
Kathleen,
This is such a powerful piece. Filled with insight and wisdom. I don’t know what I love more— the pic with your mom and the flowers or the fact that you
finally get to be a daughter.
Thank you for sharing your heart ♥️. Sending love and prayers.
Courtney
thanks Courtney. It's becoming a little bit more difficult because the radiation is supposed to stop the bleeding and shrink the tumor and it hasn't stopped the bleeding. It's actually made it worse so now when we're into something totally different.. getting labs tomorrow and hoping we don't need a blood transfusion because that means we have to go to the ER and at UF Health you wait for hours and hours. I appreciate your support and I'm back in Nurse mode again which I think I'm always in nurse mode but having to put the daughter on the back burner right now. 🥲
If it’s not one thing, it’s the other or should I say when it rains, it pours.
Goodness me, Kathleen. Ya’ll are having a time. Continued prayers from me and always lots and lots of love 🫶.
🙏🙏🙏
What a beautiful story. All the best for you and your mum, Kathleen.
thank you, sir. A very painful journey, but has come with truth and enlightenment as well. It is true that during some of the most painful times in our lives some of the best things come out of it.
I'm praying for you and your mother, Kathleen. My mother got diagnosed with breast cancer stage 2 a couple years ago. After treatment, she has been doing well and it has not been an easy ride. It was tough since I live in a different state.
She lives in WA and I'm here in OK. But at the same time, I kept strong and prayed...a lot. I'll keep you in my prayers during this time.
This made me think about my mom’s journey to cancer and her healing. Jesus took that sickness to the cross we just have to believe and command it to go, in watching my mom’s journey also, she now is healed . Keeping your beautiful mom in 🙏 prayer
thank you. We believe in healing too and I know sometimes he heals in other ways, especially being a registered nurse for 29 years. I don't know why everybody doesn't get healed. We should but we live in a fallen world. Mom just turned 87 and actually she almost died three times in 2021 and that's when I walked away from my career in the hospital so that I could spend more time with her because it's more valuable than money. so God has given us more time because we could've lost her then about three times and then after that she had a stroke and then she had a bypass on her leg and she made it through all of those and then just recently this rectal cancer and the wild thing is when she was in the hospital with the stroke in February 2024 they told us it was internal hemorrhoids and I know it wasn't a G.I. doctor but still. I know that she will be healed in one way or the other. I'm hoping it's the way that she gets to stay here but she is very frail and weak now and I'm doing everything holistic. I can all we did was five gray radiation for five days that's all she could tolerate and that's all I would let her have and hoping it will shrink it down because where it's involved in is not good and so it's in God's hands and of course I'm doing everything I can with the holistic things that I know kill cancer cells and shrink tumors and things like that. So happy to hear about your mom, praise God 🙌
What a beautiful story. Heartwarming and told with love. I'm so glad you were able to connect even more so so on a deeper level. Keeping you and your mom in my prayers. Blessings to you both.❤️❤️
thank you, Bill 🙏 when I write these things I definitely come from the heart and I just say it how it is. I don't mind being vulnerable at all because I think that some of these things will help other people going through similar situations
What a wonderful written piece. Kathleen, I know it's a terrible demanding time for both of you. We spoke about it. And I just wanted to let you know how valuable as a person and healer you are. You helped me more than you know. And I'm grateful to have you as a friend. Thank you and wishing you all the strength you need.
it was one of those that I just sat down because I felt it in my heart after our conversation yesterday and we spoke of things that have not been spoken about without anger and door slamming like I said in the article. After I hit the last character, I got up and sat on the couch and started crying so hard. The emotions just started coming out. You know how writing can do that?
you are a dear friend Daniel, and the feelings are mutual and we've helped each other and that's what it's all about isn't it?
I'm always here for you if you need anything at all, even when I'm going through this I always have room and time for others.
It's what I love to do and it's who I am.
I was told Invision that this was not for me to heal, and I asked why the only thing that was said back was this was not for me to heal. I don't know what that means. The healing is gonna occur to her passing or someone else is going to do it or even God would do it. Even though I got that message I'm still laying hands on her and I'm still doing a lot of things. I've added some more holistic things like mushrooms and things like that and I've got a whole daily regimen that we're doing now and of course I change it if something changes with her.
I really appreciate your support as always 🤗💕🙏
What a beautiful piece Kathleen. I love "sometimes the thing that could end it all is actually the thing that lets everything begin." I honestly believe a disease, an illness and cancer, forces us to heal the parts we are not willing to explore. It is a second chance. I also love you are healing together. Thank you for being so raw, so real.. bless you both
Karen... where do I begin with you? Without giving a dissertation like I normally give, I'll just say that I don't think I could get through this without you. You have taught me so much and helped prepare me for the radiation treatment all week. And as you know, there was healing each day there was a treatment- healing inside of me and fir mom. The things we worked on.... there's no one else I could've worked on that with. I trust you and you know that is a hard thing for me. We have definitely walked through some fire together. Words can't express how I really feel so there's no sense in me continuing with words. I think you know what you mean to me and you know that I will always be here for you, my friend. Forever! 🤗
In Munay 🙏
In Munay my friend 🙏❤️🙏
Kathleen, that was so beautiful. It’s counter intuitive but makes so much sense.
Jenny, my dear friend, you have been a godsend for me going through this journey and I know you understand because you lost your mother and your husband to cancer
it's like only those that have walked before us on this path truly understand what it's like
I've been through a lot of trauma and things in my life and this has been something completely different than I've ever experienced and been one of the hardest things I've ever had to go through in my life.
Thank you for the phone calls and text messages early in the morning and into the evening and holding space for me.
I love you for it. I really do. It means the world to me.
God bless you, dear one 🤗💕🙏
It’s my pleasure and I’m grateful for your friendship.
You have a friend for life and I'm here for you... whatever you need 🤗