So grateful 🙏
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Kim Troutman
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Kim Troutman
Good morning,
I was not sure about doing this, its very humbling this disease and the financial burden that comes with it. With encouragement I decided to follow through and I am so grateful to all of you following my journey and to those able to help out. There are no words to equal my gratitude. Thank you so very much!
A little history since I really was unsure what I was doing.
My husband and I have been together since I was 15 and he 17 we were married at 17 and 19. Kids we were, taking on the world. We have always worked hard for what we need, sometimes 2 jobs.. never have asked for help.
We have two beautiful daughters and son in laws and 4 amazing grandbabies! We are all very close and we have good family support. We are truly blessed.
I have Lynch syndrome, a cancer gene that runs in my family deeply. My mother passed from colon cancer at 35yo!!!! I cannot imagine what she went through with 3 young girls. My sister passed in her 40s after a hard fight. My Uncle is doing well with having his large intestine removed. Maternal cousin also caught early and is doing well.
My diagnosis was after a routine colonoscopy, I was getting them anually because of our history. Had surgery to remove ascending large intestine in June 2024. Took Keytruda immunotherapy for 10 months and it quit working, tried opdivo and i became toxic. My scan showed a lot of spread. So we decide in June 2025 to have a CRS HIPEC surgery, a very tedious surgery to debulk tumors. I had more colon removed, rectal tumors, vaginal tumors and a little taken off my bladder and diaphragm. Then they put hot chemo in and moved it around for 2 hours and wash out. I came out with a ileostomy. 2months later we went back in to take down ileostomy and he did a exploratory to ensure he got everything. We were clear! I ended up with a bowel blockage and they opened me back up 2 weeks later, bowel was adhered to abdominal wall. I have lots of scar tissue and fascia adhesions. We fought the blockage and ileus for months i could not eat, became very malnourished and had to go on TPN, a iv nutrition from Aug to Dec 23rd my Christmas gift to come off tpn. Lol.. Jan 2026 scan showed cancer was already back in pelvis and abdomen very small spots. We were ready to start chemo and a miracle happened that very day a clinical trial opened for my type of case for a T cell immunotherapy drug. Scary as this is a new trial, but so far things are going well and the side effect are pretty tolerable. First 3 to 5 days after treatment is rough, lots of joint pain and itchy rash everywhere! My next scan is April 21st! Praying for good news, so we can change my treatments every 3 weeks instead of every 2. 🙏
Thank you, for all the love! ❤️
I was not sure about doing this, its very humbling this disease and the financial burden that comes with it. With encouragement I decided to follow through and I am so grateful to all of you following my journey and to those able to help out. There are no words to equal my gratitude. Thank you so very much!
A little history since I really was unsure what I was doing.
My husband and I have been together since I was 15 and he 17 we were married at 17 and 19. Kids we were, taking on the world. We have always worked hard for what we need, sometimes 2 jobs.. never have asked for help.
We have two beautiful daughters and son in laws and 4 amazing grandbabies! We are all very close and we have good family support. We are truly blessed.
I have Lynch syndrome, a cancer gene that runs in my family deeply. My mother passed from colon cancer at 35yo!!!! I cannot imagine what she went through with 3 young girls. My sister passed in her 40s after a hard fight. My Uncle is doing well with having his large intestine removed. Maternal cousin also caught early and is doing well.
My diagnosis was after a routine colonoscopy, I was getting them anually because of our history. Had surgery to remove ascending large intestine in June 2024. Took Keytruda immunotherapy for 10 months and it quit working, tried opdivo and i became toxic. My scan showed a lot of spread. So we decide in June 2025 to have a CRS HIPEC surgery, a very tedious surgery to debulk tumors. I had more colon removed, rectal tumors, vaginal tumors and a little taken off my bladder and diaphragm. Then they put hot chemo in and moved it around for 2 hours and wash out. I came out with a ileostomy. 2months later we went back in to take down ileostomy and he did a exploratory to ensure he got everything. We were clear! I ended up with a bowel blockage and they opened me back up 2 weeks later, bowel was adhered to abdominal wall. I have lots of scar tissue and fascia adhesions. We fought the blockage and ileus for months i could not eat, became very malnourished and had to go on TPN, a iv nutrition from Aug to Dec 23rd my Christmas gift to come off tpn. Lol.. Jan 2026 scan showed cancer was already back in pelvis and abdomen very small spots. We were ready to start chemo and a miracle happened that very day a clinical trial opened for my type of case for a T cell immunotherapy drug. Scary as this is a new trial, but so far things are going well and the side effect are pretty tolerable. First 3 to 5 days after treatment is rough, lots of joint pain and itchy rash everywhere! My next scan is April 21st! Praying for good news, so we can change my treatments every 3 weeks instead of every 2. 🙏
Thank you, for all the love! ❤️
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