Project Placidity

Thank you Coram Deo Farm for donating these sunflowers for our session 🩷

Project Placidity came shortly after becoming affiliated with NILMDTS + wanting to make a change.

everyday families are experiencing anticipated grief first hand & trying to remember a life before or without diagnosis.

Grief + beauty CAN coexist, and there’s so much beauty in knowing I’m able to offer these services to any family facing these hardships.

THIS is Project Placidity.

“Reagan was diagnosed with grade 4 glioblastoma in November 2023. She had her first surgery to remove the tumor that month and while we were waiting for pathology to come back to figure out what type of treatment was needed her tumor came back double its original size so in January of 24 she had another surgery to remove the tumor again. Shortly after that she start chemo and radiation.

She was only able to do about 3 weeks of chemo because it completely whipped out her immune system and she ended up getting really sick and septic and spent almost 3 months in the hospital fighting for her life. By the grace of god she got better and her immune system got better and she was able to come home and be a kid for a couple of months before the cancer came back again and in September 2024 she had her tumor removed again and did another round of radiation and some immunotherapy.

All this time we were living in North Dakota and around October they said there wasn’t much time and to get our affairs in order. So we decided to move to Oklahoma to be closer to family so we could have the holidays together. And then once we got down here she had a scan to check progression and the tumor was gone. And again in January she had another scan and it was still gone. So we were able to get some extra months with her.

She had a scan in April that showed a new spot on the other side of her brain so that meant the cancer had spread and her original spot was growing again too. It took about a month to get a plan in place and we had decided to start a new chemo and do some radiation on the new spot and then last week she had some more scans done and her new spot of quadrupled in size and her original spot was getting bigger too. So now we have to decide to just keep her comfortable or to do treatment.

And if we just keep her comfortable we have maybe a month and if we do treatment maybe 6-8 months. But that’s her story. She’s smiled the whole way and hasn’t given up.”