It's been almost a year since my last post and this one is sad and terrible. I was told recently that noone blogs anymore but...I guess I do. Now and then. When something big happens. Or happy. Or sad.
On Mother's day, May 13 at 9:05 am, my mom called to tell me that she was "having some issues" of numbness and weakness on her right side and that she was very dizzy. It's all a little blurry after that, the worst day ever. We were told there was a mass on her brain and that this hospital wasn't equipped to tell us what it was so they were sending her by ambulance to another hospital. Later that day we learned she had lung cancer with mets to the brain. She had a lung biopsy and several scans within that 3 day hospital stay. Its seems surreal to say all of this out loud. But as of today, she has had a craniotomy to remove the brain tumor. 1 week ago today actually. She has done fantastically. It amazes me how well she has done actually. A bit of good news.... she had a PET scan that didn't show cancer anywhere else and she is a candidate for Keytruda. So as of now, no chemo! She will have 3 rounds of gamma knife radiation in her brain and then will start the immunotherapy. We keep saying it could always be worse. She is such a strong lady.
If anyone is even reading this blog I just want it out there that my mom is the sweetest and strongest and bravest lady I've ever known. This has been so overwhelming and such a whirlwind month. I'm in some weird fog most of the time, denial the other. It's so terrible and wrong to see your mom so weak and frail and sick. And unfortunately I know the worst is yet to come.
On Mother's day, May 13 at 9:05 am, my mom called to tell me that she was "having some issues" of numbness and weakness on her right side and that she was very dizzy. It's all a little blurry after that, the worst day ever. We were told there was a mass on her brain and that this hospital wasn't equipped to tell us what it was so they were sending her by ambulance to another hospital. Later that day we learned she had lung cancer with mets to the brain. She had a lung biopsy and several scans within that 3 day hospital stay. Its seems surreal to say all of this out loud. But as of today, she has had a craniotomy to remove the brain tumor. 1 week ago today actually. She has done fantastically. It amazes me how well she has done actually. A bit of good news.... she had a PET scan that didn't show cancer anywhere else and she is a candidate for Keytruda. So as of now, no chemo! She will have 3 rounds of gamma knife radiation in her brain and then will start the immunotherapy. We keep saying it could always be worse. She is such a strong lady.
If anyone is even reading this blog I just want it out there that my mom is the sweetest and strongest and bravest lady I've ever known. This has been so overwhelming and such a whirlwind month. I'm in some weird fog most of the time, denial the other. It's so terrible and wrong to see your mom so weak and frail and sick. And unfortunately I know the worst is yet to come.
