I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on Mom's third round of chemotherapy. She had her third round of chemo on Monday, and is three-quarters of the way through the "bad" treatments. The good news is that the "bad" treatments are having fewer and fewer side-effects on her. She was a little tired on Tuesday and Wednesday after the treatment, however, by my estimation, took them a lot better than the first treatment. She has been up and around the house a lot more after this treatment. Her next treatment is scheduled for Monday, December 10th. This is the last of the bad ones.
We got another good piece of news when the doctor did Mom's physical exam this week. Two weeks before she had felt that the tumor was softening, but this time she said that it was definitely shrinking. She guessed that it had perhaps even shrunk by half.
The last piece of good news we got this week came from Dallas. Mom's sister, my Aunt Kathy, had surgery to treat her breast cancer on Wednesday. She was diagnosed three weeks to the hour after Mom's diagnosis came. She had a double lumpectomy and is resting comfortably at home. The doctor was very happy with how the procedure went and gave her a very good prognosis. In three weeks she will begin a series of radiation treatments. Our thoughts and prayers are with her too as she recovers. She is very happy to have this behind her and is eager to get up here to see Mom.
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Hi Grant, keep the good news coming,I think about you and Jill and your Mom often, just how brave and how positive you all are. My friend in Colorado is fighting with breast cancer as well, she somehow read about your blog from one of her friend from Peoria, it has been helping her so much, what you are sharing gave people hope, you are doing good thing to help people you don't even know it, keep it up. Barb, I am thinking of you. Love, Louisa.
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