This post is done by Jason MacDonald her husband.  You will have to bare with me as my words are not as elegant as Audree's.

Well it has been a great weekend, a weekend of a lot to reflect on.  We were charged with the task of deciding the right procedure for Audree and preparing for our visit with the Surgeon on Monday.  We had a great meeting today with the surgeon and came to the decision to have the mastectomy.  This is a decision that Audree and I have thought long and hard over.  We have had a lot of support and prayers from many of our closest friends to people we do not even know.  It has been a testimony growing experience to receive calls, emails and to be stopped by people who do not know us telling us they are praying for our family. 

After our meeting today with the surgeon, receiving the different opinions we have received, and through our own prayers we were able to make the right decision and feel confident in what we chose.  The procedure is tomorrow 1:00 pm.  We have to go in to the hospital at 8:00 am to start all the prep work, and at 9:30 am Audree will have her sentinel nodes tested around her left chest to make sure the cancer has not spread to those areas.  This is an outpatient procedure if we want and we could come home that night.  However, since Audree won't be out of recovery until 4 or 5, and we will not know how she will feel we will probably stay the night, to be safe and come home Wednesday morning sometime. 

We have seen the lord's hand in this process everyday and know that our family was prepared to endure this road block in our lives.  Because of our faith in prayer and the lord, we both feel that this has not been a trial, and we have received so many blessings from this experience.  I cannot thank everyone enough for everything that has been done for our family.  I know that Jesus is the Christ and that he is always with us throughout our lives, though our trials are not easy, we can easily overcome them through love, faith, and turning to him.  We have to do our part and endure the best way we can, but if anyone is reading this post with doubt in their minds of our almighty creator, I implore you to turn to the scriptures and pray as hard as you can to gain a personal testimony of Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father.

I will continue to update this blog as now the realness of this disease has hit our family.  We will stay positive and attack the cancer one day at a time.  After the surgery tomorrow we will know the steps needed to preserve Audree, and have her become cancer free.  Right now we are not going to have to do radiation, but that could change depending on what they see tomorrow.  They are also predicting 6 months of Chemo, but again we will not know that until later.  Thank you everyone for remembering our family.  We love you all.