It has been awhile since I have updated and for that I apologize. The need for the apology is the fact that I have seen there have been hits on this blog. It's as though I needed to step away from everything for a little, but by doing that I wasn't able to possibly help anyone else through all of this.
The summer is a quick picture. My mom was given Carboplatin and Taxol for two cycles. This drug combination was supposed to be used for all six cycles, but her Oncologist did not like how slow the numbers were coming down. So she was swapped to Gemzar and Taxotere, which is harsher and far more effective. As it turns out it is far more effective. The down side is though she used to have a 21 day rest period and all the drugs were administered at the same time. Now, Gemzar is given, seven days later Taxotere is given, then fourteen days later the hell starts all over again. Some weeks she still feels ill from the previous treatment as she goes into the next treatment. She is a trooper though and has a hell of a fight in her.
As it stands from her Gemzar treatment last Tuesday her numbers are at 71. Which is fantastic. We need them under 35 and earlier this summer they were over the 2000 mark, which scared all of us, except her amazing Oncologist Dr. Michael Hicks. She has two more cycles left of these drugs and then we find out where we stand.
On a side note, she is still on fentanyl patches for pain in her abdomen.The pain they say is from internal healing and scar tissue which is normal. She just keeps changing the patch and everything keeps going along. It's a difficult thing seeing your mom lose her hair, go through multiple surgeries, and be drug through hell, but its makes you so damn proud seeing your mother beat it back with a mallet because she refuses to lose her family.
I love her more than words can express.
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