Cancer Update

I have been asked for an update so here goes. I am so glad that you all care so much.

First of all, my sister was discharged from the hospital on Monday. She has a lot of pain and quite a bit of recovering to do at home yet but she really wanted out of there so she could get to her own home and her babies (her dogs). They did, after a day or two, tell her that pathology came back and did actually find that some cancer was removed from her lungs (after they thought they had found none). This kind of cancer also has a "bad habit" of returning after a while and they said when it returns it often goes to the bones or the brain. She will have to go through more chemo and then radiation on her brain and the hopefully this is over!!!!!

Now on to my mom. She had a nuclear test last Friday. I thought it was going to be a CT Scan but they said it wasn't. They injected dye and some other thing and looked at her liver very closely. It all made her nauseated and achy so that wasn't fun. She got the results on Tuesday and.... Spot on liver: NOT cancer. They figure it is veins or something like that. Yaaaaay! So, today was not only her first chemo but also her birthday!! What a day! She was very tired and they gave her meds for nausea. We won't know if the chemo makes her ill at all for a day or two I guess. Tomorrow we're going to visit as long as she feels well. If not then I will go alone and Matt and the kids will stay home. She is anxious to see my kids though so I hope she feels well.