My 1 Year Anniversary

! Life has been crazy busy for us over the past 6 months and I haven't found time to sit down and update everyone one whats going on in our world! I thought today would be the perfect time! September 21, 2017, marks 1 year of my life being turned upside down forever. Some could …

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Continue to Keep your Seat Belt Fastened Until this Roller Coaster Comes to a Complete Stop

Wow! What a crazy past 4 months it has been! My apologizes for not updating my blog sooner, but life has been a little busy! I will go back to January 11th! One of the most emotional days of my life. I'm pretty sure I experienced all of the emotions in that day: sad, scared, …

The Wait is OVER!!!

As I sit here trying to think about what I want to write I am drawing a blank. I want to update everyone and post something before I go in for surgery tomorrow, but honestly over the past couple of weeks I haven't thought about it much unless someone brings it up! It's not that …

The good. The bad. The ugly. And then there is tomorrow!

I have always had a love hate relationship with the new year. Well it's basically New Years Eve and New Years Day that I have mixed emotions about! I love it because over the past several years we always spend NYE with my amazing extended family, playing games, drinking and stuffing our faces and I …

Bittersweet

Bittersweet is the only word that best describes finding out I am BRCA+. I have said this so many times and I will continue to say this, but I feel so blessed to have the knowledge of this genetic mutation so I can take the preventative steps to make sure I am around the raise my …

Doing My Part

I first wanted to start off by updating you on how my GYN Oncology appointment went last Thursday! Well, I pretty much walked in to West Clinic with tears streaming down my face. It just wasn't my morning. I had done so well all week trying to keep it together and even that morning getting …

Win, Win

The Medical Oncologist we met with October 26,  Dr. Tauer, has a saying when talking to patients trying to decide whether to go through with genetic testing. "It's a Win, Win. If you test negative for it you win or if you test positive you are still winning because you now have the knowledge to …

Back to Reality…

You know you have those days, weekends or even weeks that just seem too good to be true and you wish they wouldn't end? Well that has been my past week sort of.... It didn't start off that way so I am not going to make it seem like everything was rainbows and butterflies. I think I …

Knowledge is Power

My name is Katie and I'm 31, and I was born and raised in Memphis. I met my wonderful husband Jacob when I was 15 and he 16. We have been married for 8 years and have three beautiful boys Jake(4), Bradley (2) and Will(6 months). I have built a very successful networking marketing business …