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07/03/2025

4:15 a.m. The alarm went off. We were headed to Iowa City for Sage’s scans. Two years off treatment.

The anxiety has been crippling. For the past two weeks, it’s consumed me — OCD spirals, sleepless nights, the constant fear of “what if.”

Sage had to be poked three times today because they couldn’t get a vein. Three times. Not a single tear. But don’t let that fool you — he was just as anxious as I was. He had to stop for the bathroom three times before we even got to Solon. His body knows the routine even if his voice doesn’t say it. Child life knows Sage loves Nacho and Corrine and what a blessingg Nacho was ready to brave the pokes with Sage.

Last night we read his MRI book — the one that explains how loud the machine is, how still you have to lie, how brave you have to be. He knows the drill.

Two MRIs. Two CT scans.
✨Clear.✨

We are grateful. We prayed, and God answered. So we wait again — four more months of hoping for calm, for nothing. Because with cancer, nothing is everything.

But the truth is, cancer doesn’t care about today’s clear scans. It could come back tomorrow. That’s the reality. That’s the trauma. And that’s why this journey never really ends — even when treatment does.

For now, we breathe. And we hope for another stretch of quiet in between the chaos.

Xo- Natalie

06/21/2025

Seattle, Washington💛

06/21/2025

Seattle, Washington 💛