Ok, so after mom got home from Disneyland she met with her doctors and was able to establish what was going to happen for the next chapter in her life. She would go through four chemotherapy sessions every two weeks at a very high toxic level and then twelve weekly sessions at a lesser toxicity. While doing this she would have a few MRI's done to see what kind of progress is being made. If everything goes well then she would undergo surgery to remove the tumor. While we were all very excited to get things moving and get this all over with, I felt apprehensive about how she would take the treatments and how her body would react. But we are all very thankful for modern medicine and the probability that this kind of cancer is very curable.
Mom went in for her first treatment on October 27th and said that it was all very easy. They inserted a catheter into a shunt that had previously been placed in her chest for the chemo to enter in and it all went very well. She said she laid on the bed and played around on her computer and after a couple of hours it was all over. Aside from being very tired it took a couple of days for her to start feeling the effects of the medicine. She was nauseated and had a hard time eating and was exhausted much of the time but by the end of the second week she was feeling very much back to normal. Now it would be time for her to go back and do it all over again. Bring it on!
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