Kandice Robinson With the Lord
Posted by Terry White on July 27, 2010
Kandice Robinson
Kandice Robinson of Warsaw, Indiana, a courageous young woman who was a missionary appointee to Asia with Grace Brethren International Missions, has succumbed to cancer in Goshen, Indiana. Just two weeks ago Kandice participated in Momentum, the annual Grace Brethren youth conference, at Cedarville University in Ohio.
Details will be posted as they become available. Friends all over the world have followed her “detour” from her goal of getting onto the missionary field. Here is her “my story” posting from her Caring Bridge website:
How this all started…
At the beginning of April I noticed some swelling in my left breast. I was in Colorado for training, so I visited a local clinic and was diagnosed with Mastitis (an infection in my milk glands). However after three weeks of crazy amounts of anti-biotics the doctors began to worry that it wasn’t an infection.
That was the week my life turned upside down. On Monday I visited the clinic worried that I wasn’t responding to the meds as quickly as I expected….and on Thursday I was at the hospital for out patient surgery to biopsy my left breast. The biopsy results came back on April 28th and I was officially diagnosed with Inflammatory Breast Cancer. I started chemo treatments on May 7th and finished them finally on September 24th. I was preparing for surgery at the beginning of October when my world was rocked again and I was told that my cancer has “upgraded” to a stage 4 and my entire treatment plan was sidelined. I now know that I have IBC in my right lymph nodes as well as the left and that it was unresponsive to my chemotherapy. The new treatment plan includes radiation and clinical trials…but all of that is still unfolding…
Its amazing how everything can come to a complete standstill in an instant. Suddenly everything else gets put on hold as we call doctors, read books, research online, send out prayer e-mails, and make phone calls. Hopefully this website will help keep everyone up to date on the every changing journey that is my fight against IBC.
Thanks for all your support and prayers! I am blessed to have such a big “fan club” (as my friend Sandea always says). I can’t tell you how much joy I have received from your cards, e-mails, and words of encouragement.
Keep in touch as we see God’s plan in this unfold. His plans and ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours. This may be a shock to us, but my God knows exactly where this detour is headed.
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Thank you for letting us know this, Terry. I find it surreal to believe this as I had just gotten home from work this evening to a phone message to pray for Kandice and then a call from my sister that Kandice had died. The Lord saved her for such a time as this – having had a week with no headaches to reach out to the youth at Momentum only to meet Him face to face a week and a half later. Wow. I don’t understand God’s timing, but it’s amazing. “To live is Christ, to die is gain.” Kandice has gained!
Kandice was such a joy and a light to everyone who knew her. She will be greatly missed by many including myself. She is such a strong amazing woman that never stopped praising and worshiping the Lord even though she greatly suffered. While our hearts on earth are mourning we are rejoicing as well to know that she does not suffer anymore. How sweet it must be for her to be in the arms of her Savior! We love you Kandy!!!