Mom started experiencing pain in early July in her shoulder, back and ribs. The pain has limited her ability to get around and participate in her normal activities (like baking chocolate chip cookies) and she has had a hard time sleeping. A CT scan on Saturday, Sept 12 revealed several tumors in and around her lungs, surrounding lymph nodes, ribs and several vertebrae in her spine. Mom and dad had an appointment with an oncologist in Geneva on Monday, Sept 14. The doctor indicated she would like to run additional scans and tests to get a better idea of the type of tumors, primary site (probably lung), and extent of metastasis so she can present treatment options to mom and dad. We anticipate having more information by the end of this week or early next week. We will keep you updated through this blog site.
Mom is in good spirits and she would love to hear from you - especially stories about you, your family and things that are happening in your life. I'll be working on the blog to make it easier for folks to comment.
Mom also required that I only post pictures of her where she looks good. I have decided to modify that requirement and decided that I am allowed to post family pictures where we ALL look bad - it turns out there are a number of those. See what I mean
Nice socks!
ReplyDeleteYou'll notice that Shari and Amy have matching shirts on. I had probably already outgrown mine. Actually, Shari was probably wearing my old shirt and Amy was wearing Shari's old shirt. For some reason, mom thought we looked cute in matching outfits and poor Amy had to wear the same outfit for 6 years with the hand-me downs. Check out the small child in the background I just noticed. Could that be Ruth?
ReplyDeleteYeah - look at those long legs!! Did we really wear shorts that short???
ReplyDeleteThat's Becky in the background
ReplyDeletethose were the days!?
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