Kara's Collection

Kara’s Collection: LAST radiation in picture

Kara’s Collection: LAST radiation in picture

From an article originally posted May 28, 2013…

My dear, dear friend Jen captured this journey for me so beautifully. She has a gentle gift of capturing a moment in a quiet beautiful way. She is a gift. Gift as a friend, gift as a professional, and such a treasure to our family. I feel there is very little to say. Her pictures captured the moments. I cried all through my last treatment. And as I walked through the door to the arms of my man, I was overcome. So many people came to love and support my family. It was very humbling. Please consider letting Jen capturing your family, your event, your life.

Kara’s Collection: Come CELEBRATE!

Kara’s Collection: Come CELEBRATE!

From an article originally posted May 22, 2013

Two more treatments! Two more! Two then one and I’m done. I certainly have more procedures in the future, but this morning I realized this Friday is my LAST morning fighting cancer. This is that last leg of this journey. This is the end of this weary year of beating, destroying, minimizing the radical cells that took residence in my body. Chemo, bilateral mastectomy, radiation.... The end. Period. The remaining procedures are preventative. This is the end of getting the cancer gone. Amen!

Kara’s Collection: Limping to the finish

Kara’s Collection: Limping to the finish

rom an article originally posted May 21, 2013…

Monday is the beginning of the end. It is the last week of school and the last week of treatment. We are dragging, limping, struggling over the finish line. When the mom, the go-to cheerleader, organizer, keep-it-in-order person is down for the count, everyone struggles. We have had victories, but I must say we have barely made it. This year my kids earned grades that will never be quantified on a report card. Ella will spend her last week in elementary this week. My heart cannot take that in. Mickey said it well when she said how the little children in our home can escape to their imaginations. Together we are limping across the finish line of this school year, and I couldn’t be more proud.

Kara’s Collection: Sunday Struggles

Kara’s Collection: Sunday Struggles

From an article originally posted May 20, 2013…

Sunday night I struggle to sleep. Anxiety builds for Monday mornings dawn and another treatment. But I give thanks this is my last Sunday night. I give thanks that the end is in sight. I’m tired. I’m beginning to feel how extremely tired I really am. So tired a long nap won’t help.

Kara’s Collection: Oh the pressure

Kara’s Collection: Oh the pressure

From an article originally posted May 12, 2013…

I have noticed a trend this year. I have seen a lot of Facebook posts, blogs, comments circling around what pastors should not say on Mother’s Day. I have felt an anxiety for my guy. There is a lot of hurt surrounding this day, and we all long for someone to be sensitive to us in our pain. I understand. Hurt for those who have lost their mamas, hurt for those who have a broken relationship with their mama, hurt for those who have not found the man in their life to make them a mama, and women with great longing to be a mama and struggle with infertility. Oh how deeply these hurts hurt. This year I hurt, because instead of being the mama I have wanted to be, my residence has been my bed.