Promises Today

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Hello everyone,

Wow, what a ride! It all started in February with diagnosis and surgery. March, April, May and June were filled by chemotherapy with up weeks and down weeks. Now I have to wait until September for the last part of my treatment to be completed. I am hoping that the hospitals finally sort themselves out and I will be going to Cambridge for radiotherapy in September. Once that is over I will just have Tamoxifen to take to suppress the estrogen in my body, which is what the type of breast cancer I had feeds upon. I will then have 3-6 monthly check ups and mammograms every so often.

I want to thank all of you who receive this email for your love, support and encouragement throughout this process I have been going through. Thank you for your prayers too. :o)

I also want to thank all those that came to our party last weekend. It was the BEST night ever and exceeded all my expectations! It was wonderful to be surrounded by so many amazing friends and family members. I’m just so sorry that we couldn’t spend time with all of you. I just wanted to split myself into tiny bits and sit with everyone!! I guess that’s what you get with big parties like that. :o) Thank you for all your amazing gifts and cards, we were extremely spoiled by you all!!

There are some photos up on Facebook, but we also had an incredibly talented photographer there. He’s my brother-in-law’s brother, Andrew Gardner. He owns The Boutique Photography Company. You can view photos on his website and also order prints from him directly if you wish. http://boutiquephotography.nextproof.com Register your name etc and the password to view the gallery is: maizymoo.

So, this will be the last update until radiotherapy begins in September. I hope you all have an amazing summer holiday.

Love you all very much.

God bless,
Hayley
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On the 17th July we had our 75th Celebration Party! Our 10th wedding anniversary, my 30th birthday and Djerk’s 35th birthday. 10 + 30 + 35 = 75! 🙂

It was at the Broadway Hotel in Letchworth and it was filled with family and friends from all different parts of our life. We had an AMAZING night, thanks to all those who came! It was great to celebrate some milestones, but also to celebrate the end of chemo! Woop woop!

I was due to begin radiotherapy on the 19th July, a couple of days after our big party. Things changed…

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Hayley Geurts is about to go on a loooong journey to Mount Vernon hospital (nr Watford) during early morning rush hour traffic. Radiotherapy prep = BLAH!
16 July at 07:19

Hayley Geurts Check me out, I’m getting a tattoo!!! Haha!
16 July at 09:12

Hayley Geurts went all that way for nothing. Radiotherapy has to be moved to September now. PANTS! Oh well, on with the summer hols!!
16 July at 11:32

Hayley Geurts feels very relaxed. Radiotherapy pushed back to Sept, Willow Foundation break in October and party tomorrow!! God you are so good to me!
16 July at 14:53

Email to all:

Hello everyone,

Apologies for not contacting you in the last couple of weeks. Since my final chemo session a couple of weeks ago I have been feeling so much better, full of energy and ready to get back to normal life! I’ve had a very busy couple of weeks and by the looks of my diary it’s only going to get worse! :o) I love it!!!

The effects of the last chemo were minimal, praise God! I was up and about very quickly and was soon into the realm of “overdoing it!”. By now most of you know me well enough to know that I don’t rest well. :o) So, now I’m back at the school working hard on getting the last bits of IT sorted for them, I’m also busy preparing for my party next week. If you haven’t already had an invite, then please see attached! You are ALL welcome to come. We are celebrating many things, but mostly just celebrating life! It’s going to be great!  I have a lovely floor length dress to wear, so please come dressed up too! I don’t want to be the only one!

I am going to be running in the Race for Life today. I say running…. it’ll be more like a stroll really… Haha! If you would like to sponsor me, there is still time! http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/maizymoo I’m hoping the sun won’t shine too much today as I shouldn’t really be out in the sun too much due to the chemo. There are lots of girlies running with me and I have been blown away by the amount of sponsorship I’ve already had. Thank you to you all!! :o)

The next step for the cancer treatment will be radiotherapy. Unfortunately, the start date I was given originally, 19th July, is no longer happening, as Addenbrookes couldn’t fit me in. So, I will have to wait for another date and possibly from another radiology department at another hospital. It’s a shame I can’t start sooner and get it over and done with, but I will have to exercise some patience (another thing VERY hard for me!!) I will have to start the Tamoxifen drug at some point in the near future. I’m not really looking forward to that as it could very well throw me into early menopause. Joy. Well, we will see what happens.

I am so thankful to God that I have come out of this part of the treatment so well. He has been my rock and my shelter throughout this. I cannot imagine going through such seasons without Him. I have had so much encouragement from you all too. Thank you so much for all your support and love. I am so blessed by your friendship.

Right, best go get ready for the Race!

I will update you all soon once I know when the radiotherapy will start. Please pray that the start date is arranged soon and that it will be close to home!

Love you all!
Hayley
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I Raced for Life with my Mummy and some other great friends (Faith, Jenny, Robyn, Liz, Bairbre, Sacha and Juliet) and I raised £510 for Cancer Research UK. Fantastic day!!