We Thought We Were Getting Ready To Coast

It looks like we're still slogging uphill.

Mom missed her appointment on Monday, was it something she ate?

Anyway, she went to get her bloodwork on Tuesday, hoping to continue chemotherapy - her last week!! But, it was not to be.

Mom's bloodcount was so incredibly low! The doctor prescribed daily injections of B12 and folate (I think that's it).

Now, here's where things get weird. On Wednesday, Mom went to get those prescriptions filled at the grocery store... her oncologist from Victoria just happened to call right then! Mom had to go straight to the hospital for a blood transfusion!! Two units!

It's not that uncommon, and they are fighting the cancer very agressively. I think the trouble is with having 'too many cooks'. If everything has to clear through Victoria before they do what's best, isn't it Mom who suffers? And isn't the goal to make her better?

Lesson learned. Mom is going to be much more vocal (under my stern instructions!) about any issues that affect her. And they all do.

So, we continue on, and hope that next week her body will be up for the one last uphill fight! Wish her luck.

Will Next Week Really Be Enough?

Well, Mom's just about done.

That's not to say is was easy. It wasn't.

This last round of chemotherapy really challenged her. They had changed her anti-nausea medication (remember, these come with their own side effects), and they put her in a strange dissociate state. She wasn't nauseous, just not quite there.

That's not to say it was horrible. It wasn't.

Mom says she's eating well, and her energy level is improving. She certainly doesn't cough like she did before treatment! Her throat still hurts, but not as much.

So, we have one more round of chemotherapy next week. Pretty sure she'll feel terrible again. Pretty sure that'll pass and then it's the countdown to July 22nd, when we hear if the treatments had any effect on the cancer.

Send your love and good thoughts, they mean a lot!