Oct. 10 afternoon:
The doctors did a series of tests and weren’t able to determine the cause of Mom’s chest pain. She’s going to be taking 800 mg of Ibuprofen (which can cause nausea…great), and she went home this afternoon. I found a website that has some info on the connection between chemo and chest pain (chemocare.com).
Oct. 10: Mom went to the hospital this morning because she’s been experiencing chest pain over the last 12 hours or so. As of 9 am, the doctors have done an EKG and ruled out a heart attack, but they’re doing tests to check for fluid around the heart sack and blood clots. I talked to Mom on the phone this morning, and she said she’d been uncomfortable if she moved in certain ways, and she spent the second half of the night sitting up. They gave her a couple baby aspirin, and she said that helped. “Just another bump in the road,” she said. I’ll give more updates as I hear them.
Oct 9: Four days left!
Mom started up on her chemo treatments again on Tuesday last week, and she only has (I think) four treatments left this week until she’s done with this round. They decreased the chemo dosage, so hopefully that will help her avoid getting as sick as she wraps up. Then we wait four weeks or so before they scan to see how much poco the tumor has shrunk.
That’s the update for now!
Althea, Bryan, Andrew, and Sylvia