Busy, Busy, Busy

What a bad blogger I have been. I apologize! Matt and I got home from the CMA music festival and we hit the ground running; catching up on mom's doctor appointments, summer time activities for the kids, and we also had a huge graduation party to get ready. The graduation party was a huge success in my mind but I will blog about the latter. For now I would like to post a little update on Lynn.

-Second surgery was a success the margins are now the right size and the tissue they took showed no cancer.

-she met with her oncologist and he stage her cancer at 3A. Basically because of the amount to lymph's that were affected.

-the next course of treatment is a 96 day round of chemotherapy. Again this is due in part because of the lymph's, the chemo targets the whole body and will get any free radicals hanging around.

-after chemo she will then do a round of radiation and then be done. I am not sure for the exact days of radiation but do know it is a short period then the chemo.

-lymph edema, we have learned a lot on this subject. Mom's arm was starting to show a little swelling so one of the doctors sent her to a special lymph edema place where they are giving her daily massages for two weeks to help improve circulation. Part of these treatments includes wrapping the whole arm to maintain pressure. So mom is currently walking around with one arm mummified! It looks like she broke her arm.

There has definitely been a lot to learn and I feel like we have not even
touched the tip when it comes to information. But my mom has such a great team of doctors and French hospital has a great cancer wellness center that has helped my mom and us all navigate this new world.

What all this means: With this course of action they except a full recovery and a estimate a small chance of recurrence. Yeah. Oh and they also did a PET scan last week which showed there was no sign of cancer anywhere! Another big yeah. We are probably still about 2wks out from start chemo (from our calculations) but will hopefully (fingers crossed) have a more definite start time tomorrow as my mom has another appointment with the oncologist.

That is all that is fit to print on my mom. Besides a few (OK a lot) of doctors appointments it just feels like a normal summer around. The weather is beautiful; we go to the gym and workout, take the kids to summer activities and get into our normal bouts of trouble when the two of us are left home alone all day! Now you can wait with baited breath to hear more on the CMA's and the graduation party!