On the long road to recover??

So is treatment considered a part of recovery?  As of today, our daughter has had four chemo treatments.  So far, so good.  She has had few side effects and feels OK except for the bowel issues she has!  Constipation gives way to diahrrea and that gives way to constipation!  She has not said anything about hemorroids but I am guessing she has them!!

Her oncologist is happy with her progress and surprised she is not showing signs of side effects.  Her hair is starting to come out and she is preparing for that ultimate dreaded thing which is going to happen within a few days.  She is getting a hair cut tomorrow to shorten the beautiful auburn head of hair she has always been so proud of and she is preparing her children for this event.  Wig?  Not sure at this time.  She has scarves and little hats, so this may be the style for her.

She is almost one third of the way through this part of chemo with another round to start after this fifteen weeks.  The kids are doing their thing and I hope the older ones are being sensitive to her feelings and needs.  I know that goes two ways, so I hope Mom and Dad are working on this to make things go as smoothly as they can.

We are going there this weekend to see our granddaughter in the hig school musical "Bye Bye Birdie".  We know she will be the star!!


Love to see everyone but painful to see our daughter go through this whole thing.  Prayers, please.

Things are good...at least for now

After the second treatment, things are going very well.  There was a long wait this morning but it was to check things out and now that she knows that, Kathy will take a book or find some other way to pass the time.  I may be there for the next treatment; she thinks she can drive herself and maybe that is good for now.  I am sure that as time goes by, she will be too tired to drive.

I get really pissed at people and their petty complaints.  Feminists, who have to really dig to find something to bitch about; fashionistas who think only about the latest fashions, etc.  This past weekend our teenaged grandson lost a dear friend and an outstanding athlete in a tragic accident.  Then there is illness, like this cancer with my own dear daughter.  Children being taken because their parents are not capable to caring for them.  Those are the important things in life.  People, not things.

The initial shock as our daughter is diagnosed with breast cancer

You never think it will happen to you.  Actually, it did not happen to me but to our middle daughter.  She just turned 40 in December and had gotten a routine mammogram.  When the results indicated she needed a needle biopsy, we were still thinking it was going to be OK.  No one went with her...she could do this and go on with her life.  And her life is a busy one as a wife, mother and nurse.  So when she called me a few days later crying with the news that it was cancer, we were all stunned.  We still are after a month.  This is our story as we travel the unknown path toward what we hope and pray will be a victory.