Diagnosed with Cancer, Am Pregnant and Will Have My Breast Removed in 16 hours

If you know someone who had cancer while being pregnant, or personally went through this please send an email to me at ceo@sup.biz or post a reply here.

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July 12th

Here are some pictures from Before and After:

Looking at Ultrasound pics with Mother-in-law the evening before surgery

Close Up of My Baby's Face in 4D ultrasound the Afternoon Before Surgery

In recovery an hour after closing me up

Getting my Appetite Back in a Big Way the next morning

Leaving MDAnderson to go home

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July 9th

After getting diagnosed yesterday at MDAnderson, I decided I was not going to hide the fact. I am really scared for my life and for the life of my baby. At the same time, I can not help but to worry how people will look at me with only one breast. They are also going to have to remove a large portion of my back. The back skin and the back muscle will be used to cover the hole where my left breast and chest muscle will have used to have been.

The good news for everyone reading this is that I should be back from the hospital by Monday and able to work from my computer out of my bed. I am a strong willed woman and I plan to heal quickly. The other partners of the company met last night and decided to donate a portion of all the profits to breast cancer research. I cried when I saw that they had placed the pink ribbon on the logo today.

My twitter account, that was initially used for updating on Sta.rtUp.biz, is also going to be used for updates on my battle, which I will win. Please take a moment to sign up to follow me on Twitter and tell your friends about it. I would like to share my story every step of the way.

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MDAdnerson has informed me that I will be the 6th pregnant woman in medical history to have a mastectomy. They also told me that there has been less than 100 documented cases of pregnant women with cancer since they started tracking in 1991. I hope that by getting my story out, that I will be able to connect with some of the other 98 or so women that have gone through what I am going through now. This is the only way that I will find answers because the doctors say they can give no answers with so few statistics.

So please share this post with everyone you know. Hopefully, the power of business networking can lead to me finding answers and spreading awareness at the same time. Little did I know that a few weeks ago while watching how Twitter was changing the way we see Iran, that I would be using it to find answers and support in the fight of my life.

My surgery is at 6am Friday morning. I should be able to give a twitter update in the evening or dictate it to a family member to tweet it for me. I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read this and for forwarding this message on to all of your contacts.

If you know someone who had cancer while being pregnant, or personally went through this please send an email to me at ceo@sup.biz or post a reply here.

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Natalie Regoli
CEO, SUp.biz
Future Cancer Survivor and Mom

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Qua Hock Seng on July 9, 2009 at 11:42pm: God Bless You. I shall pray for you. You are a very brave women. Most woman in your situation would be under stress. Take care and get well and recover soon.

Regards,

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Permalink Reply by Marcos A. Rondineli on July 9, 2009 at 11:55pm: A blessing from God in the utherus and a bad happening in the breast. Indeed a question yet to be answered, but for sure God knows His doings and if I were in her position, I surelly would question a lot my own life, but at the end, Charlene, I am sure I would come to the conclusion that He is right and I acted wrong. Blessed feeling, pregnancy no doubt is a trust from God on His daughter, I would be strong enough to heal myself, if not in the body itself, on my soul.
Everybody has the merith to receive their charges and the beauty of that rudity is that everybody, at the end, do win over the battles.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rigoberto Juarez on July 10, 2009 at 1:28am: Dear Natalie I congratulate you on your sthraight and faith you have during this battle rest asure that you are will not be alone, the sovereinty of God will always be with you and your as you travel through this dark monent. I am sure his grace will never leave you or forsake for you are his creation and the work of his hand, also he will take care of your baby and his will in shown through all this ordeal.

I am lifting you up in prayer as I know he hears every clamor and suplication his children make.

May the peace of the living son of God be with you.....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rollis Fontenot III on July 10, 2009 at 2:02am: I share your faith that you will get through this, especially because you have the right attititude. I will keep you in my prayers.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by V.Vyas on July 10, 2009 at 2:40am: Dear Natalie Regoli
This is only a life. People likes you, not your breast.You know you have a lot of power in you which can turn the whole wold so this is a time of exam for you which is taken by God and i have lot of confidence that you will pass out this exam with best result and with a lot of will and self confidence.
Our good wishes are with you always and don't feelany thing negative in your mind be positive so you and your baby become perfectly healthy.
So get well and come soon on line god bless you.
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Seis on July 10, 2009 at 2:56am: Hello Natalie,

my prayers are with you.

I know exactly what cancer mean and I have accompanied so many cancer patients successfully who won the fight against their cancer on a natural way (without chemo, radiation, and/or mastectomy).

I know the problem which people have when suddenly diagnosed with cancer, all the fears, but it would be better to calm down for a moment and try to get well informed about not only the common ways of medicine but also about the natural alternatives... and not to forget, to trust in God and pray.

Enclosed find some helpful links:
http://www.essiacinfo.org
http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dc_home
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Permalink Reply by Bradley A. Miller, LUTCF on July 10, 2009 at 4:49am: I don't know of anyone with this situation but I wear a pink wristband in honor f my two sister-in-laws. We lost Debbie a little over a year ago. she was one of the most caring beautiful people I ever met. She was only 50 and left m brother and four daughters. It was so rapid that they scheduled the mastectomy very quickly. My other sister-in-law saw her mother go through it and although I felt that she could have had other treatment, she elected to have the surgery saying, "it is more important to be there for my grandchildren", she has seven. bw. the wristband has not been off since I put it on aver three years ago.

Please pass on this "Prayer for Healing" to this woman and anyone who needs it ... if anyone passes it on, I consider it a blessing to me so Please "Pay it Forward"

Here is a Micshbeirach to help you get better

A "Prayer For Healing"
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Mi she-bei-rach a-vo-tei-nu
M' kor ha-bra-cha l' i-mo-tei-nu
May the source of strength
Who blessed the ones before us
Help us find the courage
To make our lives a blessing
And let us say, Amen

Mi she-bei-rach i-mo-tei-nu
M'kor ha-bra-ha l'a-vo-tei-nu
Bless those in need of healing
with r'fu-a sh'lei'ma
The renewal of body
The renewal of spirit
And let us say, Amen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUp2MTfyfrI

http://inspiringthots.net/ movie/poem-sick.php

Shalom, Peace, Love ... SHARE

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Permalink Reply by Chagaman on July 10, 2009 at 4:52am: My prayers are with you, everything will be fine for you and your baby. When you recover enough to respond, please contact me, I have very important info for you. God Bless, Ed; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Shirley Sundarsinghe Daniel on July 10, 2009 at 5:06am: I'am extreemly sorry to hear of this but don't lose your faith in the Lord Jesus as people have undergone harder times than this so I will keep you in my prayer's and may the good Lord pull you out of this misery.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by AIEEalerts Admin on July 10, 2009 at 5:14am: Hello Natalie,

I pray for your and your baby's well being from my heart...

The particular Ca. you have is exceptionally rapidly growing & seen in pregnant ladies mostly because of the hormonal changes in pregnancy. The sad part is that it grows fast and considerable time is wasted in diagnosing it since it mimics a Breast Abscess.

As your drs. must have rightly told you- you should get rid of the breast at the earliest even if it turns out to be only inflammatory later (such is the seriousness of it). The breast can always be reconstructed later.

Its treatment part is still very much evolving and this is where you can find info your Dr. may not be aware of:
Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation

You are a strong lady and am sure that you will sail through this troubled time smoothly and be an inspiration for many affected by this dreaded disease.

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Permalink Reply by Dimitry St. Nedelchev on July 10, 2009 at 5:37am: Gentile Signora, ogni malattia puo` essere vinta e Lei non deve perdere nessuna speranza.
La medicina contemporanea e` gia` molto avanzata, specialmente negli Stati Uniti.
Nonostante tutto tanta gente prova di combattere la malattia (il cancro) usando la medicina popolare tradizionale. Se devo essere preciso scrivero` qui la ricetta: 350 grammi succo di aloe vera + 1 kg miele di qualita` + 1 litro vino rosso stagionato di qualita. Il liquido si mescola e si mette nel frigorifero. Si beve a piccoli porzioni 3-4 volte a giorno prima di mangiare senza nessuna interruzione.
Se posso dare altri consigli - sono sempre a disposizione.

Dimitry, Bulgaria
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Permalink Reply by Philip Schulthies on July 10, 2009 at 6:43am: Hey Natalie, Good luck with your fight against cancer and congratulations on your future child! You get in there and fight and don't be concerned about what other people think or how they look at you. How you look doesn't matter, it is what is inside that counts. Your true friends will support you and the rest weren't your friends anyway. Let me know if I can help you in any way. Your true friend, Phil; ▶ Reply to This