Some good news to share (no I'm not preggo)
I went with my MIL to her oncologist appointment yesterday.
She is doing great !
She was diagnosed in late 2004 at the age of 79 with stage 3 lung cancer, right after my mother died of cancer. After undergoing chemo for 3 years continuously, her cancer seems to be in check. The cancer won't go away completely because the drug that could possibly do this is just too damaging to her body and really affects the quality of her life.
So the doc yesterday told us that he would like to keep her on the current regimen as a maintenance program, to keep the tumors from growing. She'll get a break in a couple of weeks and then they will scan her to see if there is any new growth and take it from there.
Doc calls her his miracle patient. In 2006, he asked us if we could move up the date of our wedding because he didn't think she was going to make it. Boy was he wrong and are we ever glad for it.
It's been a long road for all of us.
Thanks for listening !
She is doing great !
She was diagnosed in late 2004 at the age of 79 with stage 3 lung cancer, right after my mother died of cancer. After undergoing chemo for 3 years continuously, her cancer seems to be in check. The cancer won't go away completely because the drug that could possibly do this is just too damaging to her body and really affects the quality of her life.
So the doc yesterday told us that he would like to keep her on the current regimen as a maintenance program, to keep the tumors from growing. She'll get a break in a couple of weeks and then they will scan her to see if there is any new growth and take it from there.
Doc calls her his miracle patient. In 2006, he asked us if we could move up the date of our wedding because he didn't think she was going to make it. Boy was he wrong and are we ever glad for it.
It's been a long road for all of us.
Thanks for listening !
