Carey Kicks Cancer

06/15/2026

But when was the last time anyone called you to ask about:
• Your mineral ratios?
• Your stress load?
• Your sleep?
• Your nutrition?
• The chemicals in your home?
• Your real hormone balance?
• The inflammation brewing silently for years?

Interesting, isn’t it?

We’ve built an entire system around finding disease earlier, while spending very little time teaching women how to create health in the first place.

Imagine if we invested the same energy into helping women understand their bodies, nourish their cells, regulate stress, support hormones, get sunlight, move daily, and reduce toxic burden.

What if prevention wasn’t just finding a problem sooner…

What if prevention meant helping women never get there in the first place?

And teach them what real testing is vs archaic and toxic smashing of the chest in radiation and scraping of the uterus with cancer causing chemicals.

That’s the conversation I wish more women were having.
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Repost from jodiemeschuk

My personal experience:
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My routine mammogram results were clear and free of disease, but 6 months later, I found a lump. Yet my recent mammogram gave me a false sense of security, and I chose to ignore the lump for another 6 months while breast cancer spread beyond the tumor and into my lymph nodes.

Don’t delay. Don’t put it off. Your health should be your #1 priority. Early intervention is key if disease is thriving in your body, but prevention should be part of our lifestyles.

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

05/23/2026

🔔 I rang the bell a year ago. 🔔

May 19, 2025 was BIG day.
My hubby and kids were with me at my last radiation treatment. We celebrate ringing the bell together and then we went to my son’s high school graduation in the afternoon.
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Life doesn’t slow down for cancer, but it should. It needs to slow down to encourage healing.
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May is referred to as “MAY-cember” for a reason.
May 2025 was a month I could have never survived without my tribe of loving family and friends.
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25 rounds of radiation zapped my energy, distorted my focus and some days, I was very sick.
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Neighbors brought me food, ran errands for me and drove me to some of my appointments when I didn’t feel strong enough to drive myself. Friends and family helped me plan and execute graduation celebrations for my son. A debt I could never repay.
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A year ago, I was “drowning” from treatment, decision making and trauma.
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If you know of anyone in treatment, I would encourage you to lend a helping hand. Emotional support is just as important.

It means more than you know.

05/11/2026

💐 Happy Mother’s Day to my mom and my hero. She nourished me back to health from the sickness of chemo and the vulnerability of healing from 4 surgeries.
Though I would have never chosen to have cancer, it gave an opportunity for me and my mother to connect and bond in a meaningful way that no other experience could have.

04/13/2026

04/10/2026

I’m attending a cancer survivor retreat in a couple of weeks.
Just me.
No family or friends.
It’s a retreat specifically for survivors who are less than a year out from cancer treatment and I gotta say, this comes at a good time.
People say that I’ve made stepping back into “normal” life look natural and easy, but the truth is that it hasn’t been.
I know I can’t have my pre-cancer life back. It’s gone.
I’m hoping during the retreat there will be guidance offered in processing the trauma and unmask the blurr that existed in the whirlwind of surviving.
Sometimes I find myself in disbelief that it ever occurred at all and other times I feel like an arrow of recurrence could shoot out at any unexpected moment and strike me again.
I hoping this retreat will give me the space to find more understanding and healing.
I’m here for the healing.
The retreat is a complimentary service provided by Northside Hospital, where my I had 4 surgeries during treatment.
Through my surgeries, this hospital placed/removed 2 ports, removed my breasts and then reconstructed wanna-be boobies… so ya know, it’s nice that they offer a weekend retreat to help their patients process their traumatic experiences. Lol!
But seriously, I am grateful for the opportunity.
As I said, I’m here for the healing.

03/28/2026

Happy 22nd Anniversary to my powerhouse of a hubby.

To the man who stood by me through chemo, 4 surgeries, radiation, adjuvant infusions, Dr appointments galore and countless hours of talking it all out with me.

When I felt well during treatments, we made the most of the small window of opportunity and squeezed in as many mini adventures as we could.

The pictures the end are from a trip we took to Colorado less than a month before my diagnosis. That was our last family vacation before life was clouded by cancer.

Most of the time, we aren’t thinking about when an experience will be the last, until it’s over.

Life for me is now broken into two timelines: BC and AD
BC: before cancer
AD: after diagnosis
I can never have my BC life back again. I experience the world differently now.

How lucky am I to have a spouse that is willing to transition and adapt with me from BC life to AD life.

03/21/2026

The waiting…

Since my last infusion in November, I’ve been visiting my oncologist every 4 weeks for monitoring.

My bloodwork results are improving, so my oncology visits will now be every 6 weeks.

My platelets are still low and liver function is still not up to par, but there is slow improvement.

I’ve had some physical discomfort lately that has heightened my alert. I fight back against the worry of recurrence every day, and that is a burden for me to manage. I’m getting better at it, but not a day goes by that fear attempts to derail me from staying present and moving forward with strength.

I’m grateful every day for my life and the army of loved ones (and medical team) who have fought with me and understand that the battle is ongoing.

This is me and my hubby waiting in the waiting room. Not the best pic, but authenticity captured on an exhausting day.

03/18/2026

🍀 Hope you’re feeling lucky on St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

I feel lucky:
💚 to be living cancer FREE
💚 to have hair on my head
💚 to be loved
💚 to have genuine love for others
💚 to have purpose
💚 to have support
💚 to have family
💚 to have friends
💚 to have jobs that I love
💚 to have basic needs met every day
💚 to have modern medicine
💚 to have holistic medicine
💚 to have information available
💚 to have an abundance of reasons for gratitude
💚 to witness another springtime
💚 to have air in my lungs and a smile on my face
💚 to still have a life to fight for

🍀 How are you feeling lucky today? 🍀

03/10/2026

We start THIS week!

This rehabilitation center has helped me regain my mobility and confidence after both surgeries.

I’m looking forward to giving back to a community of warriors!