We’re writing to you to share some pretty startling news we’ve received. We’re finding that there’s no easing in to it, so we’ll just say it directly: Bec/RW has been diagnosed with breast cancer. There’s a lot about the treatment that is not certain just yet, but we are hopeful that it was caught relatively early. Lots more tests and doctors in the next few weeks will help determine the treatment plan.
We've told the girls, who took it really well. They’re too young to have much context for it yet. But they do know that Mommy has something called cancer and that means that there’s something in her body that shouldn’t be, and that it will take the doctors a while to fix it.
Bec will still plan to do some of the HRuprise work - there’s a big part of the work that is incredibly fulfilling and will no doubt be healing for her. Of course, a lot of the “what” and “how” will probably need to change in the immediate term. More to come soon on that.
We’re sorry to drop this bomb by email, but we’re both still finding it difficult to share in person and we wanted to let you know. We’ll try to send updates when we have them, though we’re already learning how much “hurry up and wait” there is in this process. Rather than sending a series of blast emails, our current plan is to keep Bec’s blog updated: http://rebeccaweaver.me/blog (Bec says she reserves the right to change this in the future, of course :) )
At this point, there isn’t much in the way of specific support that we need, other than keeping our whole family in your thoughts/prayers. Thank you sincerely for that. We’ve tried to think of everyone who might want to know about this. Please feel free to forward this email to anyone we might have accidentally missed.
With love,
Bec & Sean