We met with Dr. Margolis today (oncologist). Let's start with the good news... the MRI of mom's brain was normal. Dad can no longer say that she has something wrong with her brain.
The mass on mom's liver was breast cancer that had metastasized. We are still waiting for the pathology on the tumor to see if it has the same hormone receptors as the cancer in her breast. (This will impact the type of chemo drugs that she will get.) Mom is having an MRI of her liver on Saturday. They want to get a better look at the liver and see if there are any other spots on the liver.
Mom had her first chemo treatment today after we saw the doctor. At this point, her treatment plan will be to have weekly chemo treatments for the next 6-8 weeks. We will be meeting with the doctor each week as well.
I have to say that mom seemed pretty nervous going in, but looked really calm coming out. Because she will be going for weekly treatments, the infusion only took about 90 minutes today. Her treatments will be shorter, but more frequent.
After a little while in the treatment area, mom started a conversation with the nice lady next to her. At that point, I knew that she was relaxing a bit more. The doctors office has afghans in the treatment area for the patients to cover up with. I knew that mom was relaxing a bit when she started examining the patterns.
She handled the treatment really well today. We'll see how she does over the next few days with side effects.
One down, more to come....
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