Tuesday, July 8th 2014
Dad, Kayleigh and I headed up to Cancer Treatment Centers of America a little early today in order to be there when mom meets with Radiation Oncology. The Hospital Doctor came in and said mom's white blood cell counts and platelets are coming up. Ms. Summer Baptist came in after the doctor and said that she and Stephanie from Wound Care spoke and they decided the Medihoney and DermaQOL are the best for her mouth.
At 11:00 a.m. the nurse from Radiology came to get us to meet with Dr. Gullett. Dr. Gullett peeled mom's lips apart and examined her mouth and said it looks like everything is healing great. Kathy McLaine and Dr. Gullett cleaned all of the dead skin off of mom's neck. Dr. Gullett stated mom only had nine more radiation treatments left. Now that she has been without radiation over a week, they need to get the simulation complete today for the new mask. To get the mask prepared and everything set up will take a week which will give mom another week of healing. When radiation is on hold, the cancer becomes more aggressively. Our outcome is still projected the same as it was, mom will just have a little longer to go before she is cured. Dr. Gullett stated that originally we were going for a cure and we will not change the plan other than now we will have twelve radiation treatments left on our schedule. We are completely fine with adding more treatments to the plan, especially now that mom will have a mask that will keep her lips away from the radiation.
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| Out with the old and in with the new. |
Mom came back from the simulation with her old mask and the nurse connected the feeding machine and all of her fluids. Toni and Kayleigh came up to CTCA this afternoon and Dad and I headed home. Mom's feet and left elbow have started to swell but she is improving in so many ways.
We are hopeful she will be coming home soon!
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