Living Life Now and Hope for her Children...

Since making her decision not to take any more chemo treatment, Elizabeth has allowed herself to live her life in the months and days she has left...

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Hannah is Elizabeth's 6 year old daughter and Drew is her 4 year old son. Listen to what she hopes her children will come to realize...

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As Elizabeth continues to share her decisions about the end of her life, it is her desire to know that others are helped in knowing that they aren't alone in this journey. If you would like to comment, respond or offer your encouragement, Elizabeth would find it rewarding to hear from you...

Family Acceptance and Support for Elizabeth

Person and Family

In Elizabeth's last post she spoke of making sure one is aware of how their decisions affect others. Her closest family has been the most influenced by her decisions regarding the end of her days.

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Elizabeth's family is traversing the path alongside her. Listen below as she tells of the support she has from her loved ones.

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In the reply below, Elizabeth states why she is sharing her story with others...

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Elizabeth welcomes followers and comments in regards to her journey with cancer...

Deciding for No More Chemo...

After much consultation with her doctors and with much thought and self-examination in her own heart, Elizabeth has decided to forgo any further chemo treatment. She has drawn the conclusion that she would rather have the joy of a quality of life in the few months she has left with family and friends rather than the rigors of medical and therapy trials...

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When the question was asked, How do you see God's hand in this?, Elizabeth first replies, "that's a good one." For God has given her time...


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Even though Elizabeth has searched her own heart in making the decision to forgo further treatment she knows that decisions always affect others...

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Elizabeth appreciates your comments of support and prayers for her continued journey...

Celebrating life while carrying burden of treatment...

Elizabeth says that when her father was told by the doctor of her diagnosis with Leukemia, "he was hysterical." But she told her father that they would set a date one year out to celebrate her surviving cancer that long.


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While celebrating a year of survival for Elizabeth, it has also been a year weighted with the rigors of re-occurrence and multiple collateral illnesses...all which take their toll on body and spirit.

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As Elizabeth just said it's considering the effect cancer has on one's family that is important to consider...

Meeting Elizabeth for the first time...

Hair, like a dark forest growing straight up, reaching for the sky from her scalp as if to say “we’re still here, we’re growing, we live,” is the first impression one can get from meeting Elizabeth for the first time. Her eyes speak of one who knows what she sees and has judged it truly. Her complexion is smooth and without noticeable flaw, a feature of youth which belies her journey in the last year. She greets with the voice of one who has experience rather than burden upon her tongue. But that very experience has actually been burden for her. For Elizabeth is dying of cancer.

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Elizabeth just recently celebrated her 30th birthday, “Celebrated” is intentional here. Over this last twelve months she has gone through rounds of chemo, hospital stays, procedures, exams, transfusions; the routine of life that becomes the battle which one wages on a personal front against such an invasion. From the beginning she marshaled her own forces against this challenge but she also determined that she would set a time to celebrate at one year of holding the invasion at bay. So making it to the age of 30 is truly a celebration for Elizabeth.

Elizabeth welcomes your comments and questions...watch for further updates over the next days and weeks...