Surgery Tomorrow, 7/3

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I know it’s been a very long time since I’ve had the capacity to provide an update, but I would greatly appreciate your kind prayers. I will be having surgery tomorrow to remove a couple scalp masses, one of which has gotten very large and has been causing excruciating pain (along with many other difficult symptoms) for over 2 months. 

I have been struggling immensely with pain in various tumor sites for months now. I have been hitting the integrative therapies incredibly hard, and I believe the pain is, ironically, a good sign, but it is extremely difficult to manage. 

I don’t know how long I’ll be in the hospital post-surgery, but given my current condition and typical responses to anesthesia, I doubt I will be able to provide any updates in a timely fashion. I very much appreciate your prayers, well wishes, positive energy, and support as I head into another frightening procedure. 

Much love 🩷💜

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Welcome! Thank you for being here! My name is Lauren Doyle. My husband and I have been married since 2013, and together since 2011. We have 2 wonderful kids and live in the Twin Cities suburbs. I have both a Master’s and a Doctorate and am a board-certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. I also have the student loans to prove it. In 2019 our lives were turned upside down. Our daughter was born with a serious heart defect that required open heart surgery when she was just 5 days old. A couple weeks after her birth (while she was still in the hospital), I found a mass in my abdomen which required major emergency surgery to remove. At first, we were told it was just a fibroid; we learned about a week later that the mass was a rare and aggressive type of cancer – leiomyosarcoma. Through multiple surgeries and chemo, I have come out the other side, changed in many ways. I am now considered Stage IV, with a chemo-induced heart condition, and struggle with several other severe side effects from treatments. I continue to work and live and love as best as I can. I will not claim to have all the answers about anything, but I can tell you I have learned a LOT in my 35+ years of life thus far. My passion has always been helping and educating people in whatever ways possible. I am hoping this blog will allow me to do that for a broader population beyond the patients I see at work, share my unique journey, and help keep friends and family in the loop along the way. Thank you again for being here.

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  3. You are strong and you will get through this. Lots of prayers for quiet thoughts and a speedy recovery.

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