Today is Dr day at the radiology. Actually today is the LAST Dr day for Mom. Although she has 3 more treatments she will not see the Dr weekly anymore. His plan is to see her in a few months and do another CT scan. Next week when she finishes her radiation she also finishes her chemo. She begins weaning off her steroid and will be completely off of it in about 30 days. After that she will be off both chemo and radiation for about a month. She will then begin a once a month chemo treatment for several months. It seems as though we will have a few month waiting period until we know if the chemo and radiation did their job.
Mom has become weaker over the last several days. The Dr said this is perfectly normal and told us to help her when she is walking and climbing. She also does not sleep. Mom was never a good sleeper but now she only sleeps 3 hours a night at the most. When she is not sleeping she is cleaning, organizing and re-arranging everything in her house. Every morning Dad wakes up to find closets cleaned, cupboards emptied and rooms re-arranged. She also spends time on the computer....perhaps some of you have received an e-mail or two. She has also become very impatient which is comical now but the first few day of it Dad, Jeni and I were running our asses off. The other morning she called me at 6am to have me come down and take the plants outside so she could water them "right now" she said I could come down in my pajamas if I wanted to. I told her I would come down and do it later in the day and she was not very pleased with me...now we all know that when she asks us to do something we do it now. We don't ask we just do it :)
Lately Mom has been coming up with all these crazy ideas....hence the above photo. She had Jeni order bald caps, plastic animal noses and crazy colored sun visor hats off the Internet for all the grand kids. She wants to get them all together for a picture wearing all that stuff. You may be asking yourself why?!? Well we don't know all we know is that it is something she wants and she wants it now. I told her that if the kids had to wear the bald caps she and Dad had to do it first!
It looks like Mom is going to be one that doesn't loose her hair. Its a good thing she didn't let Suzy shave it off when she wanted to! Speaking of Suzy....for those of you who know her please keep her in your prayers. Two weeks ago she had surgery to help with her gurd ( acid reflux ) there were complications and she is still in ICU in Flint. The surgery was supposed to be relatively simple with a one night stay at the hospital. I don't have to many more details her daughter Ali is in town and is keeping Mom and Dad informed. It sounds like she will be moved out of the ICU with in the next few days.
Mom and Dad are going camping this weekend. Mom is severely over packing and Dad is just shaking his head and putting everything she wants into the camper. I am hoping they will both be able to relax and enjoy so time with some of their very best friends.
My family is getting back to normal. Hayden gets his cast off tomorrow. To say that he is excited is a gross understatement. Hannah had her senior pictures taken yesterday, She had a great time and the pictures are beautiful I don't know how we are going to choose. School starts next week. It will be Hannah's last year in high school and Hayden will begin the 7th grade. Both will be running cross country this year actually Hannah has already had two meets. Hopefully September will be a nice calm month...................Famous last words.
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