Author Archives: Mrskatelynreeves

This morning I captured this gorgeous pink sunrise on the way to school. It felt like the sky was meant to be pink on this last day of October.  I have so many thoughts tonight as I head to bed, as I think about my first October as a breast cancer patient.  First, I’m soContinue reading “End of October”

Here we go.  Today it has officially been one year since I was diagnosed with cancer.  I was 31 years old and 20 weeks pregnant with twin girls.  I didn’t have time to panic. We quickly got a second option, got appointments scheduled and started chemo all in 2 weeks.  4 rounds of chemo. It wasContinue reading “10/14/25”

This is me when I was 3 months into my cancer journey. No hair. Had chemo 10 days before I delivered the girls. Did chemo 30 days after the girls were born. I never took a picture of my bald head because it made me so incredibly sad.  A year ago, October wasn’t Breast CancerContinue reading “October”

Here I am, 2 months after surgery. After a lot of conversations and many hours of worrying and deliberating, I decided to go back to teaching this year. My surgery results provided a good result, but not the best result. The chemo I had from October to May shrunk my tumor, but didn’t eliminate it.Continue reading “8/21/25”

I wanted to say thanks to much for everyone’s prayers leading up to my surgery. It was hard to put into words the anxiousness, yet calmness I was feeling just days before. The surgery seems to go smoothly, but we won’t have a pathology report for a few weeks to see if I’m officially cancerContinue reading “6/13/25”

Yesterday was my last chemotherapy infusion! From October 31st until now, I’ve done 16 weeks of chemo. Four of those weeks were while I was pregnant and it was considered the drug with the worst side effects -AC, aka the “red devil.” Twelve of those weeks were while I was postpartum and family had toContinue reading “5/7/25”

I cannot believe the girls are 3 and 1/2 months old! We’ve moved from survival to being used to our new normal. Lily and Mia are almost 11 pounds each and fitting into 0-3 month clothes. We have gotten LOTS of sweet smiles this month. They still LOVE to be held constantly, but occasionally willContinue reading “4/28/25”