Sunday, November 13, 2005

Mom Stuff

The mom report...
Mom has been feeling pretty well toward the end of this last week, after getting a rough start to it, from her chemo. The aching in her legs is pretty severe for the first week post-chemo, but has started to subside now. She doesn't think her fluid has been building up again, or at least not enough for her to notice it. She has an appointment with the pulmonologist next week to see.

She had a
Bard Port surgically put in last Friday. It will help with the administering of the chemo for future treatments so that they don't have to do the "hunt-for-the-vein game" each time. She has small veins and they were having difficulty. This should be a big help.

Genetic counseling...
My doctor has been such a dear regarding mom's battle with Ovarian cancer and has been researching some things about the heredity. She recommended that mom be tested for two genetic markers,
BRCA1 & BRCA2. If tests positive for them, then my chances of inheriting the probability of Ovarian cancer are greatly increased. Mom talked to her oncology team and they are setting her up for the labwork in December while we are in Alabama for the holidays. When she goes for the labwork, I am going with her and we are seeing a genetic counselor together. I am so humbled by mom's willingness to do this for me and her oncology team for their quick response to her request. It should be an interesting and enlightening day. And if nothing else is fun about it, we'll have a girls day together and we can do lunch!

2 comments:

Margie (and Fae) said...

Wow, I didn't know they could test for that. It's good that you will be getting it done!

I'm glad your Mom is doing fine.

Anonymous said...

Wen, that doctor of yours is just so marvelous and so does the oncology clinic where your mom is being taken care of.

Thanks for the update and infos. I love hearing about it all, especially to hear that your mom is not doing so bad and that she's been so great and strong about it so far. I wish her even more strenght in the weeks to come...

Love you Wen... V xoxo