March 10, 2015

Lucky for me, I have a lot of strong relationships. I am very close to my family – the youngest of 7, I talk to my mother multiple times a week, and close to my nieces and nephews.  My in-laws have always treated me like family. 

I have a great group of girlfriends from home (Effingham) and college (St. Louis University). And lucky enough to have great friends from my working days at the St. Louis Cardinals and on the marketing team for Panera. 

So it was no surprise that I reached out to everyone when finding out that I had a tumor.  

I also believe in the power of prayer and knew we needed to get praying. 

The support was overwhelming and comforting and yet shocking because we were still in shock.  It was just words… I was just communicating the facts…what we knew and what next steps were…

And we would find out next steps on Thursday, March 12.

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