Hi, my name is Robbie Fitch 62 year old female.
I started my unexpected journey with Breast Cancer on August 2014, no signs or sickness. I was taking a shower and doing a self-exam on my breast and felt a lump, so I called my doctor later in September 2014 and he suggest I come into his office to run some test.
A couple weeks went by and on September 22, 2014, he called and asked me to come into his office that day. And I told him I couldn’t. No I wasn’t in denial, I was closing on my house on the 22nd, so I told him I would be in his office first thing in the morning on September 23rd 2014. So, I did, and he told me I had Stage 2 breast cancer and it was spreading to my lymph nodes and I asked the doctor where we go from here and he said we must set up my team of doctors and go from there. Right then I knew God had put me in the hands of the right people.
All my doctors were cancer survivors, everyone was asking me are you scared, no I was not scared I was the 1 in 8 and I am okay with that. After 3 months of Chemo and the removal of my right breast and 19 lymph nodes, I was on my way to healing…or so I thought, then came radiation for 6 months, 5 days a week after work. I was blessed to be able to work thru this until the actual surgery of removing my breast. It has been 7 years now.
Now there is another health scare, heart failure on May 8, 2021, that landed me in the hospital for 6 days and out of work for 4 months, was not prepared for that and didn’t see it coming. I am very grateful I have people in my life who truly love me and care about my health. Financially I wasn’t prepared for this but I have to keep going I have a 16 year old granddaughter that I have custody of that I have to take care of and myself. So, I am going to survive that.
God is watching over me, and my family and I know my mother is too. I’m going to fight this to the end. I have faith in God something that was not there before, but I know he’s always been there I just didn’t believe it. So now that I am going through this 2nd health scare I’m trying to have faith and understand that I’m no different than the next person that may be going thru the same thing. There are days that I get sad and scared, but I am human. I also realize it is awfully expensive to get sick if you need medication, if it wasn’t for my doctors giving me coupons for the most expensive medicines, I guess I would be selling my house. All-in-all I am not going to give up. And I know you are not going to give up, we will get through this because we are who we are, Fighters!
We pray that this has blessed you in some way and hope that you share our stories with others who might be helped by our ability to tell our truth in love!
Matthew 5:14-16
Peace be with YOU!
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