Dear Family and Friends,
A quick update on my mom, since she's been home from the hospital.
My mom was scheduled to take her chemo treatment today, but unfortunately, she could not take it. Both her platelets and her white blood cell counts are too low, so she needs an extra week to hopefully get everything in balance again. She is schedule to take chemo next Tuesday, after the holiday. This gives her an extra week off to rest up and get her strength back.
Unfortunately her stay in the hospital last week meant that she lost quite a bit of weight, so she is now working on trying to gain some of it back, even though her appetite is not very great right now. But she is working hard at staying hydrated and that is that main thing. This week as been a tough one for my mom -- her pain has increased quite a bit since getting out of the hospital, and she also needs to work on making sure her bowel continue to move, which continues to be a problem. The doctor just increased her pain patch again today, to double the strength she is currently on, and has also given her a new prescription to help move her bowels. Hopefully this will do the trick.
She also met with her new doctor in London a few days ago. We really like him. He is a young more aggressive doctor and is looking into another chemotherapy drug as well as some experimental options for my mom, should this chemo she's on right now not work. But he stressed that at this point, it's too early to tell whether this chemo is doing anything or not. But it's a lot harder on my mom, meaning that it could be working and doing it's job.
As for her upcoming appointments, she sees her family doctor this Thursday, she will have a CTscan on the 19th, and get the results of how the chemo has been working the following week in London.
My mom is working hard at doing everything the doctors have told her to do. She is staying hydrated, taking all the medication, trying to build her strength back up with small walks and outings, and getting lots of rest. My mom and I had a lunch date out earlier this week, where she wore her new wig. She's been keeping busy watching lots of new movies, watching her grandson run around the house, and she even got out one afternoon this week and visited a nearby apple orchard with Cooper. It was a beautiful fall day and we all had the most wonderful afternoon.
And what's even better, the silver lining to all this, is that my mom did not catch the stomach flu which ripped through our family over the weekend. Dave, myself, Cooper, and my dad all caught it and were violently ill for 48 hours. We were all so scared that my mom would catch it, but somehow, and we do not have any idea how, she managed to avoid it! Her white blood cells are down and she is susceptible to bugs, yet she managed to avoid this awful awful bug. It is truly a small miracle. And something that we are incredibly thankful for!
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