PRAYERS FOR Melissa Soden

CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS.

I don’t care who you believe in or who you pray to, I’m asking you to please pray for my NANNY. Her entire world has been rocked upside down and torn apart. She has recently been diagnosed with BREAST CANCER, Stage 2B Triple-negative Invasive Ductal Carcinoma to be exact.

If you know me, then you know NANNY. She’s everybody’s Nanny. She does have a name though, its Melissa or to her siblings, its Missy. She’s a very private person who doesn’t ask for anything from anyone ever. She doesn’t share her entire life on Facebook. LOL! But, I need this news to be spread on social media so we can get as many people praying for her as possible. She’s always been mom #2 to me. She’s even the godmother to one of my many kids We argue like sisters sometimes because we are so damn close. We truly have a bond like no other, our entire family has such a tight bond that others outside of our family think we are a bunch of crazy people!

She’s starting treatment tomorrow, the first of 12+ weeks of CHEMO. Her cancer is a fast-mover and is aggressive so unfortunately her first and second chemotherapy treatments will be the hardest & roughest ones to get thru. The doctors said to expect a lot of sickness, nausea, mouth sores and other nasty side effects. She will also be losing her hair which is pissing her off the most; out of all of this she’s most angry about her hair!!!!!! I’m on the hunt for a good, natural real looking wig so if anyone has any recommendations, please message me.

I know she’s a strong person; I know this because of the shitty hand she’s been dealt in this life, I mean hard personal things she’s gone thru, but I can tell you this has never stopped her from doing whatever it takes and rising above any situation. I don’t even think she realizes that she’s already a fighter and a survivor. So for someone who has never smoked, rarely drinks and who religiously gets her mammograms every year, for her to get CANCER blows my mind and selfishly makes me so angry.

The C word is very much a trigger word for me personally. The C word ruined my entire childhood because it took my MawMaw from us, my Nanny’s mom, at such a young age. I spent many years being angry & yet I find myself here again. I’m a lot older now and Nanny’s fight is my fight. Her fight is my entire family’s fight & we got this. We will lift her up and get her thru it.

I know in my heart and with my entire soul my Nanny will beat this nasty monster of a disease. Yes, it’s going to be a hell of a ride, and she’ll have to put up one hell of a fight, but she’s got a lot of people in her corner telling her she’s got this. Easier said than done right? She has 12+ weeks of chemo to get thru followed by surgery so she needs us more than ever.

I don’t think I’ll ever have enough words to tell the world and to tell her how much I love her and how I’m already so proud of her. I’m so proud of everything that she’s accomplished in her life & I’m so damn proud of how she’s handled this bullshit so far. She’s been one of the few consistent people in my life & now it’s my turn to be there and make sure she’s taken care of.

Again, if you can please keep her in your thoughts and prayers from here on out. Tomorrow is the day she starts kicking this cancer out of her body forever. I keep saying it out loud so God hears me loud and clear along with the rest of our loved ones in heaven.

I intended this post to be for prayers but I’ve gotten a few calls today from people asking what can they do for Nanny. Because she is with one income and she’ll be missing a lot of work with no paid time off left, my family has decided to do a fundraiser of some sort to help her cover the missing income to help her pay her mortgage, utilities, medical bills, prescriptions,etc .