Hi everyone--doing this page to ask for support was in many ways an uncomfortable thing for Andrew and me. You always want to believe that you can figure things out or handle things yourself one way or another. But I can see that this journey with cancer is going to show and teach us many things we didn't know or expect.
I thought that what I would feel as the support came in was relief, but what I'm feeling is an overwhelming sense of being loved. Of being cared for--both Andrew and me. And of not being alone.
The thing I never expected was how isolating cancer would feel. It's not that I'm not around people, but it's how the moment they gave us the diagnosis something inside me froze in fear, and it felt like the rest of the world just seemed to keep going on in a life I wasn't guaranteed to be a part of.
It has truly only been through God's love and presence, through His words of truth, comfort, and encouragement, and through the people He has blessed my life with, that I am finding my way out of the fear and into true peace and hope.  
I just want to thank each of you for your support, whether financial or prayers or meals--you have helped break through the darkness and fear that have hovered around my life since the diagnosis. Thank you for being a light in my life! May God bless you abundantly!