{"id":6246,"date":"2021-06-29T18:46:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2021-06-29T18:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:46:35","slug":"finding-optimism-through-a-five-year-cancer-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/ja\/2021\/06\/finding-optimism-through-a-five-year-cancer-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Optimism Through a Five-Year Cancer Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finding Optimism Through a Five-Year Cancer Journey<\/h1>\n\n
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As the second of eight close-knit siblings, family is everything for Callie Weber. \u201cFamily is key,\u201d she said. \u201cIt made us who we are. We just always stuck together through everything.\u201d

These days, Callie is busy working full-time managing payroll and accounts receivables at an HVAC accessories company in Indianapolis called MicroMetl<\/a>\u2014and raising two young boys of her own. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201cYou never think kids have as much energy as they do,\u201d Callie said. \u201cIt\u2019s 8:30 at night, and I just want to go to bed and they\u2019re running circles, literally, around the house. I wish I could bottle up their energy and inject myself with it daily, because it would help me out.\u201d

For the last five years, Callie has been on a journey. In late 2015 when she was four months pregnant with her second son Carson, Callie noticed some bumps near her neck. She admits she\u2019s always been someone to ignore symptoms and assume they\u2019ll go away, but her family urged her to get the bumps examined. She did, and she was diagnosed with cancer in her lymph nodes. She started treatment 10 days after Carson was born in May 2016.

\u201cI went through chemo for six months,\u201d Callie said. \u201cThose drugs are vicious. I lost my hair, which sucked, but I didn\u2019t really have a lot of horrible side effects. I tolerated it fairly well, and I was able to go to work through all of the treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Callie said she finished her first round of treatment and everything was going great. Three months later, she noticed something wasn\u2019t feeling right. The cancer was back. \u201cI did another month of chemo, and then they put me on an immunotherapy drug for about a year,\u201d Callie said.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Three months after she stopped taking her immunotherapy drug, Callie\u2019s cancer came back again. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201cSo I did some radiation and I started another immunotherapy drug in January 2019 that I\u2019m still on,\u201d she said. \u201cThe side effects are fairly nonexistent. Life is pretty much normal. I like that. I still have to go every month. It\u2019s kind of frustrating, but I\u2019m living. I\u2019m here, and I\u2019m grateful for that.\u201d

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\u201cAnna is hands down the nicest, most genuine, sincere person,\u201d Callie said. \u201cI would honestly love to go on monthly dinner dates with her when my treatment is over, because she\u2019s a hoot and just the absolute best. No one wants to go to the doctor to have infusions. But going there and having an hour of time chit-chatting with Anna, before you know it it\u2019s over. Just having the time to talk with her makes things better.\u201d
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Callie isn\u2019t sure what her future holds, but she remains optimistic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u201cYou\u2019re not guaranteed tomorrow,\u201d Callie said. \u201cThis diagnosis made me go about each day a little bit differently. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s going to be another cancer diagnosis. You don\u2019t know. You\u2019re still going to have crap days, and your husband and kids are still going to annoy the mess out of you. But I try to go to bed every night in good spirits feeling that I lived the day well. I really try to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Throughout June, we\u2019re celebrating cancer survivors for National Cancer Survivor Month, and survivorship begins with diagnosis. Callie is a survivor. Join us in celebrating Callie and everyone on the journey to defeating cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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