Today, thousands of Canadians are living with ovarian cancer and approximately 3,100 will be diagnosed this year. But today - we are paving the way for a brighter tomorrow.

Every dollar I raise supports Ovarian Cancer Canada, the only national charity dedicated to overcoming this disease.

Before I can move forward sharing my story with everyone, I need to make a public service announcement. On Sept 11 2022, if ANYONE spoils the score of the Pittsburgh Cincinnati game I’m gonna be real upset because it will be recording at home while we’re are all out taking a walk for ovarian cancer. Alright now that I got that out of the way I will share a little bit about the war of survival that I have been fighting for the past five years. Thank goodness I have a badass army on my side because without the love, prayer and support I receive everyday I I truly don’t think i’d be where I am today
 
On Feb 10th at 9:00 I met with my oncologist Dr Freedman for the first time she came in the room sat down and her spinning chair rolled herself a little closer to me introduced herself and explained that my biopsy results confirmed that I do indeed have cancer, ovarian cancer and it was aggressive form of fast and slow growing cancer which had already begun to spread to many of my organs. Dr Freedom continued to explain was she was going to blast me with chemo to try to shrink the fast acting cancer before I was to have surgery.
Four days later on February 14th I started my first chemo treatment which lasted for 7 1/2 hours. Chemo freaking sucks.
I had my first follow up appointment with dr freedom three weeks later and she liked what she saw the chemo was putting a tiny dent in fast acting cancer and I would continue chemo right up to May just before my surgery.
May 8th was the day I went for surgery. After a 10 1/2 hour surgery I lost my spleen, my full reproductive system, part of my liver, pancreas, colon, stomach and bowel which would make me have an Ostomy bag, for those of you who don’t know what that is it means that for the rest of my life I would bring poohing from my stomach. My amazing surgeons did there best and tired to get all of the cancer that they could see.
For the next year and a half I would still see my oncologist every three months and go for a ctscan every six months. It wasn’t until late in September 2019 that I started to feel worse than I normally did. I of course informed my oncologist she sent me for a scan and noticed that their were new tumours growing in my abdomen and the arteries around my groin but she was going to monitor them, and send me for another scan in three months. I went for the ctscan in beginning of January 2020 and my tumours grew quite a bit so it was time for another surgery. This surgery wasn’t as bad my first one, it was only a four hour surgery, I was out of the hospital in four days.
The year went but I still wasn’t feeling the greatest in June 2020 I went for my regular scan and unfortunately I had more tumours developing. I could have started chemo then but I asked my oncologist if she could let me at least have the summer and she said yes but I was to inform her if my symptoms were getting worse. I enjoyed the rest of my summer and in September I started chemo again. I did six more rounds but to make things harder I ended up going into anaphylactic shock so instead of going once ever three weeks I had to go to my mom was sick, she had brain cancer so as I was trying to take care of myself I also always had the worry of her well being. In January 2021 my 6th round of chemo was over. Five days later my mama lost her battle to brain cancer, may she rest in peace.
Three weeks after chemo was done I went for a ctscan to find out that the chemo unfortunately didn’t shrink the tumours but they didn’t grow. Now I know that may sound like not the best news but trust me when I say I have had worse news. Basically my oncologist was just going to continue to monitor the growth of the tumours so I continued to go for blood work and scans, It was in November 2021 that my oncologist noticed a new tumour that was growing in my neck on my lymphnode, it was only 10mm at that point. My appointments got closer together and like always my oncologist monitored me closely
throughout the next couple months I started not to feel well at this point I know my body well enough to know that the cancer was growing. In the of middle April 2022 at my appointment and dr freedom explained that my blood work shows increased cancer growth I wasn’t surprised.
Which brings me to the present. Ive currently now done two rounds of chemo with the third coming up the second week of June depending on how it goes i’ll either have to do another three or five rounds.

So I think it goes with out saying how important this walk is to me. It would me the world to me if on September 11th 2022 you join my team and come walk with me in the hope that one day they will find a cure for this bitch that keeps trying to take me out!

More details will be posted as I receive them!!


-Krysta #fightingthewarofsurvival