The Big C

On this episode of Intentional Marriage, co-hosts and married couple – Justin and Cresta Burt – talk about Cresta’s recent breast cancer diagnosis and how they’re both dealing with it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I guess you could call it a miracle, some would call it coincidence or happenstance, but in February I was having heart condition issues that I’d never had before. They did and echocardiogram (an ultrasound on the heart) and found a spot on my liver, so I was sent to have a CT scan to figure out what that was. Eventually we got results and found out the ‘spot’ was just a glitch on their machine but found a mess in my breast. I was then sent for a mammogram. I had a biopsy about a week later and we were told that it was late stage 2/early stage 3.
• Today we went back in to have a PET scan and, all things considered, got the best news we could have gotten: that’s it’s early stage 2A because it’s gone to the lymph node but had not metastasised outside of that.
• There are so many questions. You hear so much about cancer and about what people go through, and everybody has advice because everybody’s had somebody close to them go through it. One thing we’re learning early on is it’s good to be there for people for support, but just keep your mouth shut about other people’s experiences because everybody’s experiences are so different.
• Doctors are far more educated than we are. That’s not to say you don’t want to do your own education or maybe you have an alternative method that you want to try. I’d encourage everyone to take the lead in their own healthcare, but also listen to the advice of doctors.

 

BEST MOMENTS
‘You don’t ever want to talk to a cancer patient about somebody else that’s died. At some point I’m going to do a list of things you don’t say to a cancer patient!’
‘Somebody telling you their mother had it and they got through it real quick doesn’t take your fear away, it doesn’t ease your concerns, and everybody’s cancer is different, there are so many different possibilities and variables.’
‘Somebody said to me today: “It’s not your cancer, it’s cancer, and it’s your diagnosis not both of yours diagnosis.” So, Justin has no part in it. Justin gives her the benefit of the doubt that she made a bad job of saying what she was trying to say.’
‘We would encourage everybody to is to go get yourself checked out on a regular basis, annual physicals.’

ABOUT THE HOSTS

Justin and Cresta Burt are marriage coaches who specialize in helping couples regain their intimacy inside and outside the bedroom. They share how their Intentional Marriage principles can help couples find their "Happily Ever After."

Though they have a great sense of humor and enjoy making people laugh, Justin and Cresta take their work seriously. They know that marriages can be healed and relationships can be restored when both partners are intentional about making things better.

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