“Every day is a gift and I have a choice” | S01E08

The presence of cancer and the threat of paralysis cannot overwhelm a soul that trusts in God. This week’s podcast features Katie at her best in the worst of times. She opens her heart in a journal entry, email, and Caring Bridge post with striking vulnerability, spirituality, and wit. She was passing through a deep place of uncertainty, faced with the reality that cancer was now destroying her spine and threatening her with paralysis. In the face of it all, she says, “I have no control over the cancer that is relentlessly eating me up, but I do have control over my thoughts, emotions, reactions, and choices.” She quotes from The Incredibles, Rocky, Handel’s Messiah, Jesus, and Lecrae. This podcast is vintage Katie: facing the threat of paralysis with tenacious faith, spunk, and humor. (Her unofficial guide to all the machines they stick you in during cancer treatment is priceless.)