Finding Hope

Finding hope when you keep getting knocked down isn't easy. We're finding this out each step of every day.

Mom hasn't been feeling well the past couple weeks so she finally bit the bullet and went to a Doctor as opposed to her normal oncologist.

The doctor isn't really sure what to "Diagnose" her with, but was really surprised to see her up and moving so well with the state that her left lung is in. We learned that her left lung is very damaged from the radiation and seems to have a sort of infection or something to that extent bothering it. More or less, Mom currently has a type of walking Pneumonia. The Doctor wanted to consult with her fellow physicians, and look at Mom's chest x-rays some more, but for now has given Mom a very strong antibiotic and told her to take it easy. She will be seeing the doctor again on Wednesday for a further plan of action.

We're trying to keep our chin's up because we know Mom is a fighter, but Mom is discouraged at this juncture, and is just taking it one day at a time.

Please say some prayers for her, and send us some Hope.

All our Love,

Abby

The Last one!

Everyone break out your happy dance tomorrow for Mom as she endures her last session of Chemotherapy for the year!!!! She will have a PET scan again on the 23rd (we think) to see where all this radiation, and chemo has gotten us! Please keep her in your prayers, as she will be doing Chemo tomorrow, knocked out for a couple days and battling nausea. However, this time she will be trying out a new patch that should help curb that. Without insurance the patch would have cost her nearly $500; with insurance it was only $50 and it should work for about days.

Here we go! Last Chemo!!!

No Post = Good News

Sorry I haven't posted for quite a while. I figure if there is no bad or good news to share perhaps a break from 1 of my 4 blogs would benefit me.
I am HAPPY to post today because Mom's doctor reported in that he feels very good about the results of the radiation treatments!
He said that based on her symptoms subsiding, color of her skin, and the pains in her arm being gone all suggest that they have gotten the mass to shrink substantially. The lump that's hanging out on her neck near her biopsy location is most likely scar tissue and her droopy eye may start to go away or stay forever, he wasn't sure.
Mom is doing her happy dance and all of us in her Army are doing the same!
THANK YOU GOD!!!

A big thank you going out to Wayne & Linda (Mom's bosses) for being so wonderful and for treating her to a spa day last week as a congratulations for finishing radiation treatments.

For all of you who received your Diannes Battle t-shirts, Enjoy! I would love to see a picture or two of you in them!

Thank you for your continued prayers! They're working!!! Please keep it up!
All My Love. Abby