Rosanna's Metastatic Breast Cancer Journey

I apologize for another copy/paste update. Hi Friends, I've been trying to figure out how to share my latest news and finally decided just to do it. There is no good way to share the latest. This is not a good bye, but I do want to let you know since it looks like God is thinking my time is coming sooner than we had prayed.  On Tuesday, it was confirmed that the cancer in my brain is in my cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It is also in the CSF of my lumbar & thoracic spine. This is not good. For you medical types, it is called leptomeningeal disease, a very rare complication of cancer. Without treatment, prognosis was 4-6 weeks. I am doing the radiation, which hopefully puts me looking at 2-4 months. I serve a wonderful and powerful God. I have asked my doctors to not give up on me and they have all agreed to do everything they can to help me. I understand this would be a miracle to survive, but i ask that you continue to pray for that miracle. I've heard the possibility of a yea

This is copy/pasted from my Facebook page.  I don't have the energy to write another post right now, but I know not all of you are on Facebook, so I wanted to make sure to update on here as well.  I hope to update later this week when a radiation plan is put in place.  Please pray for all of us.   Hi Friends, The good news is short and becomes invalid quickly, so don't stop reading if you really want to know how my trip to Boston went. Thursday's meeting with the surgeon brought a lot of hope. She felt that surgery was a viable option for me, as long as my next PET scan showed stability. Now for the bad ... Those nagging feelings something isn't right allowed me to find the courage to share all my current symptoms. Most symptoms can be explained as chemo side effects: fatigue, fuzzy thinking, slow word recall every now & then.  Now for the ugly... evening headaches & occasional blurry vision that started about two weeks ago. The surgeon ordered a brai