pecangirl

Thank you all for your kind responses.

My oncologist at Mayo Clinic have recommended cisplatin and gemcitabin. My mom meets with the local medical oncologist this coming Wednesday to get ready to start chemo. At the moment, she’s really having mixed feelings about chemo. She feels pretty good at the moment and is fairly active. She gets winded because the lymph nodes that have the cancer are pressing on one bronchus which restricts airflow.

Her biggest worry at the moment is that chemo will make her sick and that she wil! waste whatever time she has left feeling lousy. We talked about the possibility of just forgoing chemo and just making the most of whatever time she has left but she said she’d make one run at the chemo and see what happened.

Probably at this point, she is coping better than I am. I end up in tears several times a day. I feel better when I see her going on like it’s business as usual but then my thoughts get the better of me.

Thank you again for your responses. I’ll keep you posted on how chemo goes.

Laura