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Julia Horowitz

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california/hawai’i | contact: [email protected]
🎗️🎀 currently fighting relapsed cancer
† moving forward in faith and living life to the fullest

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Hi friends & family,

This isn’t the post I ever imagined I would be making.

My cancer is back.

I cannot explain the absolute disbelief and what it feels like climbing this mountain and hearing those words again. I am completely numb and heartbroken.

Life has taken an unexpected turn for me over the last few weeks, and it has brought more fear, tears, and unknowns that I could fit in the last month. In the last 48-72 hours, my world has flipped upside down. Trusting God’s plan and also being reminded just how many people are standing beside me.

I’ve been in the investigation process for weeks now. Doctors found an invasive tumor on my spine as well as lesions on my left kidney and liver. The preliminary results of blood tests and scans showed signs concerning and strongly suggests a secondary malignant neoplasm of an unspecified site — a type of cancer that has spread from its original (primary) location to another part of my body, but the primary site have not yet been determined and cannot find the exact organ or tissue where the cancer first started.

The radiologist’s leading possibility is Myeloma, with Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN) are also being considered. I don’t have a clear diagnosis yet and I am still waiting on additional biomarker-testing and follow-ups throughout the next few weeks that will help my team determine how exactly I will fight this.

Next week, I will meet with my oncologist again at City of Hope and figure out what comes next and a plan moving forward.

There is no pretending that I’m okay to have faith. All that to say, if this has taught me anything, it’s been that God is always faithful and His mercy and goodness are unfailing.

This is only one chapter of my story. I have another fight in my hands, but I will not fight a single second of this alone. I’m ready, and I’d do it all over again. Thank you all for carrying this with me. I love you all.🎗️🎀♥️

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There are truly so many people to thank.

So, to everyone who has shown up for me: THANK YOU. Thank you for loving me. 🤎

Thank you all for the outpouring of love these past few days. Your messages has meant so much to me more than I can say. Thank you for letting me talk through the fear without needing the ability to have it all together.

I’m doing my best to read through all, even when I haven’t had the chance to respond. Your love, guidance, support, and prayers are carrying me through this new journey in ways I will never be fully able into words.

I had been getting increasingly sick unwell the past month, attributing to recovering from my recent COVID infection. Despite not thinking too much of it, I had also been experiencing other concerning symptoms. The pain and discomfort became more frequent and severe. After not getting better and seeming to get worse - we feared it was likely not related to that.

Once I had been admitted to the hospital and then eventually moved to the oncology floor — they began diagnostic testing and further work-up of imaging, bloodwork, and received further care.

In approximately two to three weeks, I will receive the remaining results in addition to the PET/CT scan and a biopsy that can be safely performed on the areas of the active growth of cancer —which will help finalize the final diagnosis, just exactly what we are dealing with, and aid in determining the safest treatment plan.

I expect to continue to spend the next few months at City of Hope, where they will be overseeing my care and we are carefully weighting our options with my team.

I don’t know what exactly the road ahead looks like yet. But I do know that God is faithful and a Healer and much bigger than illness. There are a lot of possibilities that are being explored, so for now, I am taking this one appointment, one treatment, one day, and one prayer at a time.

I kindly ask that you please continue to pray for peace, clarity, healing & strength for me —guidance, wisdom, and clear answers for my medical team in the coming days. I love you all. 🤍 by @juliaahorowitz