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Monday Nov 03, 2008 - 07:13:07PM

3rd session of Radiotherapy

Another radiotherapy session took place today, and my mother received another dose of strong X-Rays in the way of her cancer's treatment. Today, it was my father who took my mom to hospital and everything had gone smoothly like yesterday.

All in all, she's in a good moral situation but still complaining about the eye drops she's been having during all these days. Sometimes her eyes and the skin around them go red because of rubbing and cleaning them many many times during a day :-( I guess I can understand how bad she feels... Just imagine one cries for DAYS non-stop! Her eyes have gone so sensitive because of chemotherapy drugs. I hope that these damn side effects vanish, and my mother can recover from this pretty soon.

Sunday Nov 02, 2008 - 01:37:48PM

2nd session of Radiotherapy

My mother had less stress today for the second session of radiotherapy. We reached to the hospital early at morning, and it took an hour before they call my mother's name. Since the calculations and position markings (where to radiate the x-rays) were done on yesterday, we were one step ahead.

The overall radiotherapy session itself was just like yesterday, and was done in a few short steps. My mother was out and happy to receive another dose of X-Ray with no problem.

Saturday Nov 01, 2008 - 06:05:02PM

Radiotherapy started today!

And today we had another chapter opened for my mother's treatment to be free of cancer… Radiotherapy.

My mom was a bit worried about how it would be, and what side effects it may have while she was happy that Chemotherapy was over. She was deep in thinking in the way to hospital but I could feel she was still as strong as before, with lots of hopes. And I was thinking "Mama! I'm quite sure that you will WIN", a good feeling that I always have when praying and asking Lord to heal my mother.

At the hospital we waited for an hour to see the doctor. After reading the pathology and other analysis results, he carefully examined my mother, the location of mastectomy surgery (I was out of the room at that point) and asked for three special radiotherapy sticker bandages. I was already out, so quickly went and bought them for him. Then he started to calculate the locations where X-Rays should be radiated to, and drew some lines to mark those sections and used those sticker bandages to put some permanent marks (according to my father who was in the room then). It took around half an hour for the doctor to do this, and finally asked my mother to be in waiting room so that her turn for radiation would come.

We waited another half an hour and the radiotherapist called my mother to do the main treatment. I could already feel how stressful my mother was, but keeping herself strong as always.

The radiotherapist gave my mother the necessary instructions, guided her to the radiation room and told her to repose under a big machine.
He left the room and started the radiation for a couple of seconds. Then he paused it, went to the room again, did something with the radiation machine (perhaps changed the settings or so), returned and resumed the radiation for a couple of more seconds. He did this cycle for two more times, and it was done!

When my mother left the room she was looking confident and happy. Perhaps happy to see nothing bad had happened while receiving those powerful X-Ray radiations. She was feeling just fine when I asked her. No need to say that I feel more than happy when I see my mother feeling good :-)

I just pray that the future sessions be as hassle-free as today's!

Saturday Oct 18, 2008 - 04:11:06PM

Time reserved for Radiotherapy

It was yesterday when my father and I went to hospital to arrange the things with the doctor whom we'd been introduced to for my mother's radiotherapy. But they were off and we had to go there again today.

Fortunately everything went smoothly... We gave our introduction letter (the one which the oncologist had provided us) to the doctor (as well an oncologist and radiotherapist) along with pathology results and he studied them all and put the start date on 1st of November. There will be 30 sessions which will be done on everyday but the weekends. That will make the whole period around one month and half.

I just pray for the effectiveness of this method on my mother's cancer, and to have the least possible side effects. Lord, please help her.

Monday Oct 13, 2008 - 10:58:39PM

Eighth and the last session of Chemotherapy

It was my mother's last chemotherapy session today. I strongly hope and pray that any possible last number of cancer cells BE DESTROYED AND ALL KILLED by these last doses of the drugs. I'm quite happy to see this long chemotherapy road has come to an end :-) I still can remember the first days when my mother was so worried about receiving such strong drugs for six full months.

As usual it was my father, along with my sister, who took her to hospital to give her the last doses of chemotherapy drugs. Each time my father used to get the blood analysis result of the previous time. But today was an exception, since it was the last session and we didn’t have anything further to do at that hospital for the incoming weeks so my father waited to get the analysis result of today as well as the 7th session.

Thanks to God! Everything seems to be on track and under control and the oncologist has been quite satisfied with the results. The red globules are just a bit under the minimum allowed amount, but it's quite acceptable for someone who's receiving those strong chemotherapy drugs. There are two other blood factors as well which are under the allowed minimum value but not so much. Every time I’ve compared the results with the previous analysis results, and fortunately haven't seen any dramatic changes of any of those blood factors.

Like after all the previous chemotherapy sessions, my mother feels fine if the tear drops stop! That's the only thing she complains about nowadays. But it suddenly stops after she receives the chemotherapy drugs every time.

Now she should get ready to head for the next important step which is Radiotherapy, and it's for locally attacking any possible remained cancer cells. As the oncologist has already stated, we should start it 2 to 3 weeks later (perhaps to let the chemotherapy drugs to complete their job and that my mom can recover a bit) for 30 session everyday but the weekends. This will make it almost one month and half in total. But we should go to another hospital for this, and the hospital is a bit far from our home which makes to a bit hard to repeat it everyday. I and my father must go there in a few days to reserve and set the time. As well we should speak with the corresponding doctor and make sure everything will be on track there. The oncologist has already assured us that it's a very good hospital with high quality radiotherapy tools. Let's just pray that everything will go smooth... Amen!

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