In this episode of Her Cancer, Our Story, we talk about the strange reality of living with metastatic breast cancer: the way a summer can hold some of your happiest memories and some of your hardest conversations at the exact same time.

We start with the good stuff: our end-of-summer activities and a family trip to the Outer Banks, where we got to experience the 4x4 beaches and absolutely loved every minute of it. But when we get home, reality catches back up with us as Kaela started back to work and blood work results were waiting for us.

Kaela’s liver numbers have jumped again after vacation and after starting her new aromatase inhibitor. What we hoped would be a step forward has instead left us facing more disappointment, more questions, and a lot of uncertainty about what her treatment plan will look like moving forward.  ...