Meaghan’s Health Updates

Meaghan’s Health Updates This is my health updates page. If health info is your jam & you’d like to follow along with me on my health journey, this is the place to do it. ���

03/05/2022

An unbelievable amount of people have reached out to me, offered prayer, distraction, all kinds of support. I’m beyond thankful for the outpouring of love from the body of Christ.

Update on how I’m doing pending leukemia diagnosis: I’m choosing to not read into this until I have an actual 100% diagnosis in my hands. Getting repeat blood work, revisiting doctors, getting referrals setup, but continuing to place my hope in Christ because he is all I have & he is far more than enough.

Thank you for loving me so well. God is so good.

03/03/2022

Got off the phone with my doctor earlier today, she called to give me lab work results. She ran labs earlier this week because I’ve been having a number of symptoms that are confusing to my surgical team & they wanted me to see my primary care to get the referrals I needed.

Unfortunately, my lab work came back as “Suspect of blood cancer.”

I just had my last oncologist appointment last week, I was celebrating that… this is news I didn’t expect, want, or thought could happen. Now I have a referral to another oncologist.

Please pray, if you have time. My heart is heavy, I can’t really put into words how I feel.

01/18/2022

After a 5-month break from chemo, I had to start back up again 3 days ago with a whole set of hormonal therapies (two are chemo drugs).

My body is weak, sick, painful, all the things. Praying that this surgery on Feb 1st will be the day I get to come off of it for good.

01/13/2022

I woke up very early this morning in pain, with overwhelming anxiety, to the point of physical sickness. I had been battling it all night long and couldn’t fight it anymore.

Looked at my phone to see what time it was. 4:35am, Jan 13th. Suddenly it made sense, this is the morning I had been planning on having surgery for months.

Unable to calm myself down, I took some medication my doctor prescribed for extreme anxiety/panic attacks. Today it going to be a hard one for me, folks. And I didn’t even really know it would be.

Good news:
-God is still on his throne, God is still good
-New surgery date scheduled for February 1st, I’m very hesitant to even write it on my calendar
-my brain doctor cleared me for surgery

I’m going through things that are hard to put words to, and when I can’t find the words, I know the Holy Spirit intercedes for me and understands even though my prayers are jumbled. If I had to give one singular piece of advice to someone going through anything similar to me, it would be to place your hope in Christ, he is the only way I’ve made it through, I don’t have strength on my own, but he does.

12/09/2021

Viral infection on top of bacterial infection on top of more infections after more infections. It is in these times over the past few years where I would have been asking God, “Why, me?”

It is now that I know and trust that my hope is in Christ and is NOT being placed on being healthy while on earth. Of course, I’d love to be healthy, but I’d prefer to glorify his name if I had to choose between the two.

Been in lots of pain, praying that Christ would continue to renew me every day.

12/06/2021

I’m starting to go through some very tough pain. Level 9 pain, because I’m no longer on treatment for my cancer that is growing. It can be very difficult to get through that kind of pain mentally. Very thankful for medicine that can take my mind off it for a while. God is good.

11/15/2021

God is so good, I had my nuero-ophthalmologist appointment today (which is appointment 1 of 2) and he gave me the green light to go ahead with surgery in January. He is going to recheck on the 1/10 to ensure nothing has changed negatively, and then my surgery is set for 1/13.

I have been experiencing intense sharp and consistent pains, especially when trying to fall asleep at night after a long day. The more activity I have in the day, the more pain I have. Still, the Lord comforts me in my pain, gives me the strength to get through it, and allows me to see the good in it. God is so good.

Some of you have been asking how to specifically be praying for me right now in this season of waiting for surgery. My only prayer request for my health is that God’s will be done, he has proven time and time again that his plans are far greater than mine.

Other than health, I have two family members on hospice this holiday season. This will be the final holiday season I get to spend with both of them, God has so graciously allowed our family that knowledge, so we are able to cherish this holiday season in a very special way. Please pray for them, my great aunt and grandmother, that they would know complete joy and peace that passes all understanding during this time. That they would see the Holy Spirit working in those around them and know that they are deeply loved by them. I am so thankful to God that they are saved by his grace, we have full assurance and hope placed in him.

11/04/2021

Update since surgery cancelation:

Huge praises & a few prayer requests. The Lord has been showering me with his mercy, compassion, and provision.
-The Lord chose a couple families (one from my church and one from my high school days) to make huge financial contributions towards my medical debt. Their gifts have made it possible for me to pay for my medical premiums this month, which is an outstanding blessing.
-I was given a “to-do” list from my surgeon that he needs to have completed before he’s released to perform my surgery. On that list was: schedule 2 separate appointments with your neurologist-ophthalmologist, get in contact with his doctors office and ask him to please up your medication dosage BEFORE the first appointment, have the second appointment be in the beginning of January, get scheduled for surgery for mid January. I am so blessed to announce that all these things have happened seamlessly. My first appointment is on Nov 15th, he will need to sign off that I’m okay for surgery at this appointment. My next appointment with him is on January 10th, he will also need to sign off that I’m cleared for surgery at this appointment. He may need to order another spinal surgery and MRI, please be praying that if he does, that we can get that accomplished prior to the second appointment on January 10th. Lastly, my surgery is penciled in for January 13th! Please be praying with me that the Lord’s will will be done in all aspects of this surgical plan.
-Please be praying that the medication is doing it’s job and healing my brain condition.
-Please be praying that I would be cleared to fly to Alaska for Thanksgiving.
-I am so beyond blessed with everything the Lord has given to me this past week. The only other thing is that this medication dosage is making me pretty sick, and I’m hoping I can just get through it and my body can adjust.

Sorry for the long post, but God is so good I just had to share!

10/29/2021

God is so good. Repeat that, God is so good.

Insurance has made their decision on my breast surgery. They approved it and are going to cover it. What they do not cover will be covered by the hospital charity care department.

God is so good.

10/26/2021

Tomorrow I go in for the major surgery that I have been fighting for for the past 7 years. No one would do this surgery on a 20-year old. Now, at 27, I am still the youngest patient my surgeon has ever had with this cancer, and youngest patient he has operated on.

There is a chance that they find new cancer or that the current cancer is staged higher than we want (hoping for just stage 1). There is also a chance that I leave this surgery being cured of this cancer for the rest of my life.

I am apprehensive about the results, but I am beyond excited for this surgery. This is what my body needs to heal. Battling age discrimination in the medical setting is pretty challenging. I finally found the right set of doctors and the Holy Spirit gave them clear direction.

Please be praying for the hands of my surgeon tomorrow. Check in time is 6:45am, surgery begins between 8:45 and 9am (PST). Both my parents are in WA with me while I recover from surgery, the Lord has blessed me greatly.

10/15/2021

My neurologist ophthalmologist was able to get my insurance to approve my additional medication so I don’t become completely blind! Instead of costing between $250-$500 per month, it will now cost me $15 per month. I am so thankful. Praise God!

10/13/2021

I have good news and a much needed prayer request!

My surgical team at the breast center left a voicemail today saying that the insurance company requested additional information to be faxed over before they can make a final decision on whether they will cover the surgery.

They called me back to give me a little more information just now. The information that they requested is “any additional information on why the patient believes this surgery is necessary.” That means they faxed over my entire family history of cancer, my entire history of cancer, and my doctors recommendation for the surgery as a “quality of life surgery.”

The team believes that the insurance company is going to accept based on their request. They normally do not want (nor take into account) family history, and they don’t dive deep enough to get the full patient cancer history.

I need my prayer warriors to pray that they will cover this surgery! We are getting so so close. They said I could know by Friday at the soonest. I am praising God that it looks like they will not be able to discriminate based on my age!

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