My Story About the HOPE Blanket and Breast Cancer
by Crystal White (co-owner of Potato Saks)
I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer February 6, 2009 after finding a lump Christmas Eve 2008.
On February 16, 2009 I started chemotherapy, then had a bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction, later had a kidney removed due to a very large benign tumor (oncocytoma), and then more chemo that FINALLY ended on August 17th.
The next step was radiation for 30 days. This I finished the DAY before Thanksgiving. A Thanksgiving to remember!
More reconstruction work was done right before Christmas and I have not healed as well as we would have liked, so I am NOW scheduled to have another surgery on the 24th of February.
This time I will have a hysterectomy and more reconstruction.
I say all of this to you to preface my story about the HOPE Blanket.
The night before I was scheduled to have my kidney removed (which we all thought was cancer), my friends showed up at my door with candles. They sang to me and prayed with me. It was a VERY emotional and wonderful moment in my life.
As my friends were leaving they handed me a WONDERFUL blanket and a book of their thoughts and prayers. My blanket was made by a friend of mine (the owner of these blankets) by sewing 8 of the large baby blankets together, then she had it monogrammed “hope”, “faith”, “love” and my initials. I have carried this blanket with me to EVERY chemotherapy, EVERY surgery and keep it with me on the couch at home. It has been wash and dried 100 times and continues to get softer.
by Crystal White (co-owner of Potato Saks)
I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer February 6, 2009 after finding a lump Christmas Eve 2008.
On February 16, 2009 I started chemotherapy, then had a bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction, later had a kidney removed due to a very large benign tumor (oncocytoma), and then more chemo that FINALLY ended on August 17th.
The next step was radiation for 30 days. This I finished the DAY before Thanksgiving. A Thanksgiving to remember!
More reconstruction work was done right before Christmas and I have not healed as well as we would have liked, so I am NOW scheduled to have another surgery on the 24th of February.
This time I will have a hysterectomy and more reconstruction.
I say all of this to you to preface my story about the HOPE Blanket.
The night before I was scheduled to have my kidney removed (which we all thought was cancer), my friends showed up at my door with candles. They sang to me and prayed with me. It was a VERY emotional and wonderful moment in my life.
As my friends were leaving they handed me a WONDERFUL blanket and a book of their thoughts and prayers. My blanket was made by a friend of mine (the owner of these blankets) by sewing 8 of the large baby blankets together, then she had it monogrammed “hope”, “faith”, “love” and my initials. I have carried this blanket with me to EVERY chemotherapy, EVERY surgery and keep it with me on the couch at home. It has been wash and dried 100 times and continues to get softer.