Kelsey's Journey

02/02/2025

February ❤️🙏🏼❤️

27/11/2024

Clear scan!!! Best way to start Thanksgiving!!! 🦃🥂🍾🙌🏻❤️🥳

14/11/2024

Check in post!! I am alive, happy and doing great!!! 🙌🏻🥰❤️Same with my family! It is absolutely crazy being a mom to 3 small children 😅 but I remind myself this is what I always wanted and worked so hard to make happen!!! I am beyond lucky!!! 😍💪🏼 I realize it’s been a very long time since I did a post so I wanted to check in and say I am still here!!!! I am also still here to support and encourage you all and have a lot of messages I will get back to today!!! ❤️ I am down to twice a year MRI’s with my next one tomorrow so am feeling the scanxiety which made me think I need to check in!! Going through this journey we connect with other fighters and survivors and their family members and it’s always nice to see an update post of those people for me so I want to do the same!!!! Feeling positive vibes for tomorrow 🙏🏼💪🏼 But as you all know….you just never really know what is going to happen!!! 🙏🏼❤️ I will keep you posted!!! ❤️❤️❤️

30/12/2023

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! I am sorry I’ve been MIA but all is going great!! 🙏🏼 2023 was an amazing and very busy year!! We welcomed twin daughters in March via surrogacy so that has kept me busy! 🥰 ALL my scans have remained stable!!! 🙌🏻🎉 I now do them twice a year! 2 months ago I was able to fully stop Keppra! 💊 🤘🏼I am working full time and business is booming! 🎉 Still loving & living in Algarve 🇵🇹 AND in 3.5 weeks I become an 8 year brain cancer survivor which is surreal!!!!!! I am so lucky!!! 🥹❤️I can’t believe it’s been that long and looking back on everything that has happened since my seizure and discovering I had a brain tumor! 🧠 I wish you all health & happiness for the rest of 2023 and into 2024!!!! ❤️❤️💪🏼

20/12/2023

Thank you for inspiring us all!!!!! 🙏🏼❤️ I am sorry it had to end here but wow did you beat the sh** out of that GBM for so long!!!! 💪🏼💪🏼You will be missed but never forgotten!!! Thank you for all your strength, wisdom and keeping us all fighting!!!! May you rest in peace! ❤️❤️

02/05/2023

I have been going Grey in May since 2016!!!! At the time I never knew anyone with brain cancer it was so unknown I never even knew it existed really!!! I always thought anyone that ever had to have a heart or brain surgery is such a scary thought! When I was diagnosed completely out of nowhere in January 2016 after having a grand mal seizure in a restaurant my world changed like I had never imagined!!!!! This cancer is horrible!!!!!! The amount of people I know who have it and have so sadly lost their lives is just horrible and still unreal! The amount that live in my small Redondo Beach community. I know someone with a brain tumor in about 15 states and 4 countries!!!! This cancer get NO attention like other cancers. There has been absolutely no progress made in my 7 years of beating and battling!!!!!!! This month we will share and hopefully make even a tiny step towards improving the attention brain cancer soooooooo needs and deserves!

02/05/2023

25/01/2023

7 years!!! Today marks 7 years as a brain cancer survivor! 💪🏼🧠🤛🎗To say it has been easy would be the biggest lie I ever told! But I continue to rise up and believe in myself for how I dealt, deal and will continue to do so! Some days I don’t even think about it, other days I sit, cry and don’t want to leave the house. Some days I feel amazing! Some days I’m in pain. Some days I don’t remember I have cancer, other days it is all I can think about. There are triggers, ptsd, flashbacks and weekly scares of the tumor growing back. Times I feel so anxious, stressed & worried that what if I really don’t live to be 40 like one oncologist told me! Or those statistics are real! There are moments I wonder why me? Moments I can’t fathom why those around were taken? I’ve seen so many acquaintances and friends die from brain cancer. Many just young innocent children! 💔It’s not fair, it sucks but it could be so much worse and I know that so I am so lucky! I have gone through more than I can even believe. From meeting my husband Philip weeks before being diagnosed, to the first seizure, my first surgery, my recurrence a month after getting married, to my 2nd surgery, chemotherapy, IVF, having a son through surrogacy! When I tell the story of my journey I can’t even believe what I am saying!! 🤯It’s truly unreal but I am truly so lucky to be where I am, with who I am, surrounded by amazing family and friends, living in beautiful Portugal and continue to try to be the best everyday. Life is not easy for anyone! From the outside we really have no idea what anyone is going through. So I always know it can be worse. The past 7 years have been a rollercoaster of so many things I can’t even write them all here! But I will say THANK YOU to all of you! Thank you so much for all your prayers, positivity, uplifting words, wisdom and powerful healing thoughts which help lift me up so much!!! You have no idea how helpful your words really are!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I have no plans of ever seeing this tumor return and remain positive and hopeful whatever I did and am doing is working! I continue with twice yearly MRI’s and remain positive they will continue to be positive!!! To all you in this situation or surrounded by it I remind you once again there is hope!!!! I remember all the years looking back at peoples success stories and just praying I would one day be one of them!!!! The future is bright and 🌟 I will continue to be here for you all when you need someone to talk to!! Cheers to the future! 💪🏼🍾🎗We got this!!! 🤛❤️