Time flies when you are having fun....

The next step to Mom's treatment against breast cancer starts tomorrow morning. It has been nearly 2 months since she was diagnoised. The time has flown by. I really hope that the next 3 months will go by just as quick. The sooner that chemo is over and the recovery fully begins, the better it will be.

I have alot of people asking me how I am doing through all of this. I'm taking it all in strides. I have my up and down days. Noone wants to hear that someone that you love has cancer and then has to go through chemotherapy. It is not a fun thing. I want to find out as much information as I can about what my Mom is going through, what drugs she will be taking and her side effects. I seriously thought (and hoped) that Mom was going to get through this without chemotherapy, but alas that didn't happen. She is doing this as a preventative measure, so the cancer will not have a larger chance to recur in the next 10 years. I would much rather have Mom around than for her to have to go through this again. I have to keep thinking that and I know that she will get through this. The side effects could hit her hard and that will be scary for us all or they could not hit her at all. I'm just hoping that it is leaning towards the "not at all" side.

I'll be with Mom and Dad tomorrow at the Moll Center for Mom's first chemo treatment. I don't know if I can be with her the entire time as the center only allows one family member in with the patient at a time, so Dad and I will have to trade off. I'm prepared with a couple books to pass the time. Her treatment could take up to 4 hours. She has two one hour long infusions of her two drugs.

I've seen the effects of chemotherapy on two of my friend, Barra, who is now cancer free and Andi, who lost her year long battle with leukemia 2 1/2 years ago. Those are two different types of cancer and two different types of chemotherapy. Leukemia is brutal. Andi stayed strong throughout her battle and that is something that I will never forget about her. We would call her chemotherapy, "Ajax", as it looked just like the cleaning agent and we said that it was being used to "clean her out". Barra has been an inspiration through her own battle with breast cancer (and a great source for information!).

Thanks to my friends and family who have been asking about my mom, my family and me! It is very very appreciated. Thanks for being there for me!