Nodes Responding to Chemo

Mom continued to tolerate the chemotherapy well over the weekend. She slept well each night, sounded a lot better, was talking on the phone, and generally perked up.

This morning, my son Eric and I were visiting with her when her oncologist came to see her. He is pleased that she is not having trouble with the therapy so far. He examined her armpits where he said he had felt some "juicy" nodes prior to therapy and he felt nothing there now!

This is really good news. Of course, he said, what we want is to get rid of every single cancer cell so that it doesn't come back. If she continues to do well with the treatments and is able to go through the entire series of treatments 4 - 6 times, that will give the best chance of getting all the cells.

Mom will leave the hospital either tomorrow (Tues) evening or Wednesday morning. The day after she leaves, she will go into the office for an injection to boost her red blood cell count to help fight infection.

She will go into the oncology office a week from today and as long as everything goes well, she will return to the hospital for the second round March 13th or so. After the second course of chemotherapy, they will do a CT scan to see how the nodes are responding.

Daughter Jan