Krista Tacderas, metastatic triple negative breast cancer
Krista Tacderas — @loving.my.scars — is of the bravest and strongest of us all. At 29, she was diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma triple negative breast cancer, with a brca1gene mutation, the very week the world shut down from a global pandemic while only four months removed from resigning from her nursing position to be a stay at mom with her 1 year old daughter.
Krista tackled treatment head on and a year later she was upgraded to stage 4. This season has brought unfathomable decisions and a relocation — away from Krista’s family and friends — to be closer treatment options, like a promising trial at Northwestern.
“I recently quit my job and am on the cancer emotional roller coaster every day,” Krista said. “I’m half grateful I’m here, and half in mourning everything I’ve lost. I just never imagined I’d be diagnosed with cancer at 29 years old and still be dealing with it at 32 years old while raising my now 4 year old daughter.”
Krista recently started a new treatment, and hopefully it will work against this cancer. Next line of treatment includes trials and new research.
“I’m thankful for my faith and the ability to lean on Jesus,” Krista said “but still sometimes I’m angry over all that I’ve lost and how stagnant I feel in my life.”
Krista and her husband, an ICU nurse, eloped and never had a chance to take a honeymoon.
“I’d love for us to get to actually enjoy time together outside of the shit show that is cancer,” Krista said.
We hope this love bomb helps you take that trip, Krista. And, we agree, cancer is a shit show.
Krista graduated to heaven on September 9, 2023 after taking that jackwagon metastatic triple negative breast cancer down with her. We are honored to have witnessed Krista’s bravery and grace as she walked through the impossible.
