I realize that I have not been on top of my blog lately- for that I feel embarrassed. I, like many others, let the realm of holiday's send me into a crazy two months or so. I love Christmas- it is by far my favorite holiday- it brings back many memories of my mother's cooking. What really sticks in my brain about my Christmas' growing up is the family getting together and truly being together. We would often take different dishes to help out in the kitchen with the cooking and after all the food had been consumed we joined together once again in the kitchen to clean all the dishes; after all- we didn't have a dishwasher. Or as my mother would say, "I have four dishwashers!" as she kindly pointed towards me and my siblings.
Well, since my last post there is new news to share about my mother and her road with the chemotherapy. She now receives chemo every Monday- it is a different cocktail now- Herceptin- then some other drugs- and finally the Paxlitaxol is given. It seems that is takes longer for her to get her treatment after the keep her for observation for awhile it ends up being a good part of her day at the Salmon Arm Hospital. She is also under going a clinical trial drug which she seems to be reacting to well. The biggest complaint I've heard since starting the new cocktail of chemo is that she's been VERY tired lately- it seems to take a toll on her body which no one could deny- after all it is literally putting poison in your body. Every 4th treatment she goes to Kelowna to have her chemo. administered there. I'm under the impression that she has been having scans done and other medical tests done there when she goes to Kelowna. It is mainly to see how her body is reacting to the clinical trial- which she can quit at any time for any reason if she decides to. But as for now she's doing as well as we could hope. I believe she is over half way done with this regimen of chemo. and once finished she will start radiation treatment and will continue to be on the Herceptin for about 6 more months or so.
All in all- I couldn't be more proud my mother- they way she has so gracefully moved through the chemo as if it hasn't disturbed her pattern of life at all. She is a strong woman! I miss her dearly as she goes through this battle so far away but I rest in God knowing that He has control over this cancer and that He knows what's best for her. What a blessing knowing that I don't have any control but that God has it ALL!
I read this passage this morning as part of my devotion and just fell in love with it:
Psalm 139:1-6 (The Message)
"God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight. You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too- your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful- I can't take it all in!"
