The Benefit was Awesome

To say the evening was wonderful would be an understatement. Thank you all so very much....words can't express our gratitude. We love you!

Chemotherapy is working....YAY!!!

In spite of the hell that goes along with it, the chemotherapy is working.

It's going to be for 12 more weeks of chemo. rather then 6, but after the 1st 2 treatments of the new chemo. (not counting today) we've already noticed quite a difference.

In case you don't remember the 1st round, which was more brutal, made the lesions in her liver no longer detectable as well as the lymph nodes in her chest. It shrunk the nodes in her lungs a little and also shrunk the lymph nodes under her arm a bit.

This new chemotherapy we discovered today, not only works especially well on the large, dense tumor in her breast, it will also continue to work of the other suspected tumors in her lungs, liver, and lymph nodes.

I know we still have a long road ahead, and some scary side effects to deal with, surgery to plan, and eventually 6 weeks of radiation/5 days a week, but at least we know it's working. IT'S WORKING!

I'm crying happy tears as I write this for the 1st time in a LONG time.....YAY!

Who Loves You Baby?

I do...

Thoughtful, thoughts rattling around in my head

If a miracle happened and I won the lottery (never gonna happen, but IF)...I would travel from one oncologist to another and give money directly to patients with crappy insurance or no insurance. I would change the world 1 person at a time.....

Side Note: There was a little old lady having chemotherapy in the chair next to T's today. She was kind and sweet and alone.

It made me so sad to know that she was going through that alone....and still she spoke kindly to us, encouraged us to hang in there, and when she left, she offered Tina her blanket as it's very cold in the chemotherapy room. I make a point of introducing us and talking to whoever is near us, when we go into that room.

It's a room of strangers who bond in seconds over a common enemy....cancer! Everyone is sweet and kind to each other in there, because they know what is and is not important. The rest of the world outside is oblivious.