And We're Off!

After a long week of wondering which treatments she will do, Mom met with her medical oncologist today and started chemotherapy.  We all felt very comfortable with this decision and mom was ready to get started!  The plan is to have 4 cycles of chemotherapy for now, one every 3 weeks.  At the end of that Dr. Gray will evaluate her and decide if she is going to give a couple more cycles or not.  We are lucky and unlucky in the manner that we both (mom and I) know a little too much.  She was a medical oncology nurse for years and I am a medical dosimetrist at the Bismarck Cancer Center.  So it has been hard to decide which treatment route would be best for her, but we are so fortunate that we work with amazing doctors and coworkers that are so willing to help with anything, we feel she is getting the best treatment available to her right now.  She did great through her first treatment, had smiles the whole time.  She received a fun picture from her Williston coworkers that made us all smile and shed a tear, it is pictured below.

 

 

 

I will keep you updated with how she handles this first round of chemo.  She also will have a chest x-ray tomorrow to see if the fluid has returned to her lung or not.  We are hoping it hasn't!  After her chemotherapy she went right home to "sleep".....well when I called a bit ago she was cleaning the house!  Of course she was.  She told me not to tell Dad but I guess that's out the window.  She also celebrated a birthday this week!  Here is a picture with her cake!  (the kids call her "Shrama", I would have loved to see my dad explaining that one to the cake decorator)

 

 

So we're off!  Thank you all so much for your prayers and all of your kind words!  She is still keeping her positive attitude and is still sassy ;)  so keep the prayers coming!  Here is the wig she plans on wearing when she loses her hair.