Relief
This week Mom passed the halfway mark on her raditaion treatments and met with both the Radio-Oncologist and the Chemo-Oncologist.
Dr. Koletsky gave her some anti-nausea medicine which seems to work better than the $40+ per pill stuff and other than the fact that she has parkinsons and cancer, she is healthy.
She has chosen to eliminate the extraneous stress brought on her by her sisters by not talking to them anymore. For now, she says, she has three great kids and a husband who is doing a fine job taking care of her.
Phil is going down for a week in February, the 7-14, I think, and there is still a chance I might get down there with the kids the following week. If not with the kids, then I will go on my own a week or so later.
Dr. Koletsky said that after the radiation is complete, today is #19 of 33, he will take 2-3 weeks off and then resume Chemo for an additional 3 weeks until she is tested again to see how all the treatments worked. He said that the person who told her that she might not lose her hair because she is getting low dose chemo might have been mistaken, since she is not getting "low dose" but a dose appropriate to being in combination with the radiation treatments. She has a wig, but no need for it yet.
While she isn't playing tennis, she is walking some, not losing weight, and not getting weak. She is getting around fine and she and Mort even went out to a sprots bar to watch the UConn game the other night.
So, thank God, for now she is holding up well with no intentions other than to get even better.
Dr. Koletsky gave her some anti-nausea medicine which seems to work better than the $40+ per pill stuff and other than the fact that she has parkinsons and cancer, she is healthy.
She has chosen to eliminate the extraneous stress brought on her by her sisters by not talking to them anymore. For now, she says, she has three great kids and a husband who is doing a fine job taking care of her.
Phil is going down for a week in February, the 7-14, I think, and there is still a chance I might get down there with the kids the following week. If not with the kids, then I will go on my own a week or so later.
Dr. Koletsky said that after the radiation is complete, today is #19 of 33, he will take 2-3 weeks off and then resume Chemo for an additional 3 weeks until she is tested again to see how all the treatments worked. He said that the person who told her that she might not lose her hair because she is getting low dose chemo might have been mistaken, since she is not getting "low dose" but a dose appropriate to being in combination with the radiation treatments. She has a wig, but no need for it yet.
While she isn't playing tennis, she is walking some, not losing weight, and not getting weak. She is getting around fine and she and Mort even went out to a sprots bar to watch the UConn game the other night.
So, thank God, for now she is holding up well with no intentions other than to get even better.
posted by Joshua @ 11:07 AM
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