[Tired of Taxes]

The chemo must be doing something, even if it’s not evident yet. I used to sit next to and talk with another patient, and at first, she said her 4 cm. tumor seemed to be shrinking very slowly - hardly shrinking at all. But, toward the end of all of her treatments, the tumor was gone. She went through 16 treatments, though, as did I. It’s true that inflammatory BC is a bit trickier to treat, but keep hope alive and stay as strong as you are. You are a wonderful son to your mother.

Prayers continue...

[Nowhere Man]

I try to do the best I can, so far this morning her temp dropped to 99.0. Before zonking off to sleep, I did say a prayer for her complete recovery and to make her temp go down. I’ll check it again tonite. We have A/C but the house is like a heat sponge and the A/C has trouble keeping up in the heat so in the day, we climb to 79 degrees plus Mom’s CPAP machine gives off a lot of heat. I wonder if that has to do with it too? Then again, I took my temp and I’m like 97.2 or 98.0 and so on, I often joke “I’m part reptile.” B-)

[Nowhere Man]

Some updates. The oncologist said the chemo took some of the redness out of the left breast but it hasn't shrunk too much. He had my mother go to her breast doctor and they decided to have a mastectomy on the left breast. She goes in Monday to have it done and then she will be in hospital for a few days. I admit I'm a bit aloof but my mother is taking it well and she is looking forward to getting it off her chest, both in real life and figuratively. Well, I have decided to place my faith in God and His guidance to her surgeon that they will remove most of it. After that, there is talk of more chemo and radiation.

BTW, my father is going to the same hospital as my mother for an operation, he needs to get his gallbladder out so I'll have both parents in hospital but in his case, he hopes it is an outpatient case.