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This place changed my life and words can’t even begin to describe how surreal it feels walking these halls again this week – Katie Coleman

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Jun 28, 2023, 19:17

This place changed my life and words can’t even begin to describe how surreal it feels walking these halls again this week – Katie Coleman

This place changed my life and words can’t even begin to describe how surreal it feels walking these halls again this week. I had to fight back the watery eyes on multiple occasions today. I posted an update earlier of my husband sending me a text that said “hard to imagine 2 years ago we’d get to this point” but took it down because it was misinterpreted as bad news. It was actually the complete opposite. We were reminiscing over the fact neither of us thought we’d make it to where we are now since my prognosis in the beginning was less than ideal, to say the least. I don’t know if many who aren’t familiar with my full story know just how big of a deal this surgery was for me. It wasn’t your run of the mill procedure and the week leading up to it was by far the most stressful week of my life. I describe the week in detail in my book but this week two years ago, I had a team of doctors at the NIH/NCI take a chance on me with a surgery that we had high hopes for but that none of us could say with any degree of certainty what the out outcome may me. So being back here, two years later, walking the same halls after the two best years of my life – feels incredibly surreal. And I couldn’t be more grateful. I know many are watching my feed for scan updates and I don’t mean to leave everyone hanging. I’ll admit with so many eyes, I’m a bit slower to share results these days as once the cat is out of the bag, it’s difficult to stuff back in. But my last appt at the NIH is Thurs and I promise I’ll be back to share Until then I’ll just say, I’m not expecting bad news.