He Thought it Was a Stomach Ache - Now My Husband is Dead

<p>In this episode, I sit down with Nick Rogers and his wife, Cassie, two people whose lives were shattered by the unimaginable loss of their spouses to cancer.</p><p><br></p><p>Nick takes me through his wife Anna’s battle with aggressive breast cancer, the moment they thought she had beaten it, and the devastating reality of watching it return and spread. He also shares the impossible decisions he had to make as a father while trying to protect his two young daughters from losing their mom.</p><p><br></p><p>Cassie’s story is different, but equally heartbreaking. Her husband Cody went from seemingly healthy to being diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer, and just 66 days later, he was gone. Before he died, Cody told Cassie something incredible: he was already praying for the man who would one day love her and help raise their children.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>What it’s really like to lose a spouse to cancer</li><li>The impossible decisions parents face while grieving</li><li>How Nick and Cassie helped their children process loss</li><li>The role faith played when life stopped making sense</li><li>How they slowly found hope, healing, and love again</li></ul><p><br></p><p>And somehow, through grief, faith, and circumstances that are almost impossible to explain, Nick and Cassie found each other.</p><p><br></p><p>This conversation is about losing the person you thought you’d grow old with, parenting through grief, trusting God when nothing makes sense, and slowly discovering that life, and even love, can exist after unimaginable loss.</p><p><br><strong>Key Moments:</strong></p><p>00:00 Two spouses lost to cancer, one unexpected love story</p><p>03:18 The cancer diagnosis that changed everything</p><p>07:04 Finding faith through aggressive cancer treatment</p><p>10:19 When chemotherapy made death feel real</p><p>13:17 Cancer remission and a new beginning</p><p>16:32 The symptoms that revealed a brain tumor</p><p>20:07 When cancer came back even more aggressively</p><p>24:03 Facing the reality that Anna could die</p><p>28:26 The final months of Anna’s cancer battle</p><p>34:44 She fell asleep and never woke up</p><p>38:09 Telling two young girls their mom was dying</p><p>41:40 66 days from pancreatic cancer diagnosis to death</p><p>45:00 The scan that revealed a death sentence</p><p>49:32 Cody’s final message of faith</p><p>51:21 Why Cody prayed for Cassie’s future husband</p><p>54:28 Finding love after losing a spous