Rockin’ Robin: another miracle survivor

Robin Farley and her husband Dennis during a trip to LA

Robin Farley contacted me on this blog to tell me she was six years out from a stage IV breast cancer diagnosis. Due to the craziness of my life, her story sat in a folder for about a month. It just so happens that when I finally got back to her, she just had the Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) therapy that I’m planning on getting.

When Robin was 35, she did a baseline mammogram and was told it was normal. The trouble was they had mixed up her films with another woman. She actually had Stage I cancer. Two years later, she had another mammogram after seeing an indentation in her breast. By then, it already had spread all over her liver.  She later learned she had 18 months to live. Robin tells us:

I started out with so many liver lesions that they couldn’t count them. But THANK GOD over the past 3 1/2 years most have disappeared only leaving a few to “keep me honest.”  I have outlived the initial outcome projections, and I’m trusting God to do what I cannot do. In the meantime, I’m doing what I can to receive my earthly complete healing.

My church sent out requests for prayers. Just knowing that thousands of people were praying for me, helped tremendously. Nothing is too big for God. The odds of me making it for six years were slim to none when I was diagnosed. I’m doing well. If you spend your life worrying about dying, you’re not living.

Robin called me after she received the SIRTs and was doing well, despite some initial fatigue. I’m eager to hear if those few tumors left will continue to be there to keep Robin “honest.”