On a more depressing note....
My mom's brain cancer has returned
again. Acutally it returned 3 months ago, at the beginning of summer. It doesn't look good, because the more a body is subject to Chemotherapy, the greater the resistance the body builds against it, therefore the dosage of the Chemo has to be increased for it to be as effective. The problem is, chemotherapy lowers the immune system, and my mom's is so low already that they had to
decreasethe dosage.
So she has finished her 3'rd round of chemo, and now on October 12'th we are going to see her oncologist (Cancer Doctor) and see if:
a.) the tumor has decreased, therefore the chemo is working, or
b.) the tumor is staying the same, so the chemo is stopping tumor growth, or
c.) the chemo has had no effect and the tumor has continued to grow, and/or more have started to grow in different areas of the brain.
We have a month of waiting. A month of worrying, crying, planning, not being able to plan or anything.
Our lives are on hold- will my mom live to see Christmas, see Eric and Amanda get married... or do we update the will and make funeral arrangements?
God this is painful.... I start crying at the most random moments, like driving to school in the morning. The worse is seeing my dad fall apart. He is such a strong-willed man, and now it's eating his spirit up.
Only time will tell how this will turn out.
