Saturday, May 15, 2010

More Prayers Needed!

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that my sister needed prayers, she still needs prayers. She has been through just about every kind of U/S, CT scan, PET scan, etc and every blood test that you can imagine for the last couple of weeks, but still no surgery.
The PET scan results show that it doesn't look like the cancer has spread anywhere else in her body. The biopsy results show that the cancer is estrogen and HER-2 positive. This is a very fast growing and invasive kind of cancer and because of this, the doctors have decided that the best option is to do chemo for 4-6 months prior to doing the mastectomy. This will hopefully shrink the cancer spots and make it less likely that any cancer cells will dislodge during the surgery and spread to other parts of her body. So, she is scheduled to have a port-a-cath placed on Wednesday (May 19) and start the first dose of chemo on Friday (May 21). She will have a really strong chemo every 3 weeks for 3 months and then a less strong dose of chemo every week for a while. The doctors have told her that she will lose her hair in 3-4 days after starting the chemo next week. So, she needs all of the prayers that she can get as she starts this hard time of her life.
My aunt also needs some prayers. She was here for Adam's graduation and had gone to Maddox to eat. She fell down one step while leaving the restaurant and broke her leg. Her osteoporosis is so bad that Dr. Sumko wouldn't do the surgery to fix it. She needs an orthopedic/trauma/osteoporosis specialist to do it. She got to visit the hospital that I work in and spend the night on Med/Surg. She said she appreciated all of the help that the nurses and doctors gave her here and said that the care she received was excellent and she felt like a queen, and that she felt like she was the only patient that the nurses had to take care of. She had to wait until the swelling went down and be off her Plavix for a few days before the surgery, so we casted her leg here and she opted to fly back to Tennessee to have the surgery there. She made the flight OK, with special asssitance from the airlines and an ambulance picking her up at the airport to take her home. She will have surgery next week and would appreciate any prayers that you can give.
I appreciate any and all of your prayers for my sister and my aunt.

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