For the past 6-7 weeks I’ve had a cough that wouldn’t go away. I noticed it when I was in SF for a wedding and figured it was the dry air. When I got home, I scheduled a doctor appointment because my lungs were hurting from the non stop coughing.

Thank you to the outpouring of love, prayers, good vibes, encouraging words, and heartfelt stories today. I honestly wanted to blog what I’m going through to record my own thoughts and experiences for myself, but people have been blowing up my phone and FB. Just in the last 6 hours, I’ve had 546 readers on this blog post. Crazy!

Biopsy day was this morning, I forgot all the prep readings in my dad’s car yesterday and didn’t read any of it last night (whoops).

Ok guys, seriously…My tumor’s currently growing and is pressing up on my heart and thus reducing blood flow so it’s already under stress.

Kimberly and my dad came to the doctor’s office this morning with me to see Dr. Harmon about my biopsy results. He entered the exam room and immediately said that I had a Non-seminomatous germ cell tumor in the anterior mediastinum. Yup…your reaction is exactly how I felt when he told me.