Quote from Chris on March 19, 2024, 1:11 pm

So the FA draft starts Friday and will likely go into next week.

Just wanted to apologize in advance that I'll probably be slow making my last couple picks because I'll be on vacation in Vegas with Gina next week.

Happy to say that Ginas last round of chemo was last Wednesday. All the scans and biopsies to this point have found no spread of the cancer. She'll be doing some scans in a couple weeks, but because she's not showing any symptoms, the doctor said there's less than a 2% chance that "random" scans that we're going to do will show she still has cancer. We don't have a date yet but she's going to be doing the double mastectomy surgery either end of April or early May. And it's possible after that we'll be able to get on with a normal life.

I'm not even the one who had the cancer, but this is probably the hardest thing I've had to deal with in my life.

I was prepared for her being in bed a lot and her being sick. What I wasn't prepared for was how hard this process would be on our marriage.

She was really angry throughout this process. On social media, for everybody else, it was smiles and bravery. But in reality, it was a lot of anger and yelling.

And I was angry too as I felt she was taking a lot of stuff out on me. And because I was hurting with her, I wasn't always the nicest back to her. And then her family was getting involved in our business with their opinions. So for awhile things were pretty bad with us. She definitely went through a period where she wasn't happy.

And it didn't help that we had scares along the way too. There was one night where her bone pain was so bad we left for the hospital at 10pm. Not sure if something was wrong with her. Luckily there wasn't and they just gave her stronger pain meds and we got home at like 4am. Then there was another scare where she had some abnormal bleeding in her pelvic area and she had to get a biopsy done. We were scared because we thought cancer might have spread but the test came back negative and the doctor said the bleeding was likely from stress.

But at the same time, we're blessed because her prognosis is good. Doctors said after the double mastectomy there's less than a 1% chance of her cancer coming back. We've met a lot of people along the way where their prognosis isn't good and their situation is a lot sadder than ours.

But my faith has carried me. That God has good plans for my life. That he's not going to give me more than I can handle. And that he's really good at taking horrible and painful situations and creating good out of them.

And I'm happy to say that our marriage is good again. It took just a lot of communicating and talking things out, talking about why shes mad at me and why Im mad at her. And what we want from each other. I also took her shopping a couple times and that definitely helped lol.

I didn't plan on writing all this lol, but I guess I wanted to share because Im not on social media.

Anyways, my main point is that her and I haven't been on vacation since last August when this whole process started and next week we're going to be celebrating being done with the chemo.

So I just wanted to give heads up because Im going to be at the pool away from my phone and computer for good chunks of the week and I'm probably going to be slow at picking and might even have my pick be skipped.

And normally, we would open FA earlier, whenever the FA draft is done, but Im not going to be down for that because I don't want to have to keep checking my phone to see where the draft is at and when is FA going to start.

Appreciate all the love you guys have sent my way throughout the process.