When you get a wild horse to train, you can build a step by step foundation to put riding him for the first time in your favor. When you find out your Beautiful wife has Triple Negative Breast Cancer, you feel like there is nothing left in your favor.
That's right. On February 17, 2014 we found out after 5 years of marriage and an 11 year relationship, my beautiful wife had been diagnosed with Stage 2b Triple Negative Breast Cancer. A 4 centimeter tumor in her left Breast and 2 lymph nodes were infected with cancer. Call me naive, but I thought this stuff happened to other people, not a healthy 34 year old woman who had just 5 months prior given birth to our second child, Violet Rose. The doctor said that the cancer had been growing for a while and had probably started before the birth of our first child Ryder James. These two children are the picture of health. How could this be.
Amanda and I just moved back to Texas from Southern California to have a fresh start with our Horse Training business and to raise our children in the country. We have dedicated are life to helping the horse and the people that choose to work with them. I can tell you a million facts about horses but when it comes to cancer and words like carboplatin and neutrophil count, I am dumb founded.
It might sound silly but this all started how a lot of cancers are found. While Amanda was breast feeding she felt a little lump. She had in the past had some dense tissue issues and would worry her self sick, then nothing was wrong with her. So this time I blew it off and embarrassingly so was annoyed with her worry. Amanda decided to wait a few weeks thinking it might be related to the breast feeding and we were in between insurance policies at the time so we waited another month till we had our new insurance. By the time she saw her OB/GYN it had been about two months since she originally felt the lump.
Our wonderful doctor who delivered both our children said it was probably breast feeding related but regardless he wanted her to get a biopsy. After a fine needle aspiration biopsy didn't get a clear reading, a core needle biopsy was done and we got the results.....
So this blog is about our journey in life with our children, horses and fighting breast cancer.
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