Today Norma began the 1st of 3 days of Chemo-therapy in Ohio. She started at 8:30 a.m. and finished at 4:30 p.m. She sits in a recliner in a living room setting at Dr. Laufman's office. My dad, Ralph, is there taking orders from my mom. Lisa, my sister, brings food and tries to coax my mom to eat. My mom is basically pissed off and feeling very unproductive. Imagine that.
The treatment also includes flushing her kidneys to try to keep them healthy during the process. A doctor is on standby the entire time.
She had a brain MRI tonight. This will help Dr. Laufman and her partners pinpoint the source of the cancer. That is still a mystery. Adjustments will be made to her treatment program as more conclusive data becomes available.
For now, I'm just praying my mom and dad get some sleep tonight.
Some of you have asked for their address:
740 West Maple
Granville, OH 43023
P.S. E-mail from 3/16/09:
Thanks to all of you who know and love Norma and have expressed care and concern these last two weeks. We appreciate your support as we've tried to pinpoint Norma's illness. We will do our best to share information with you as we get it. A weblog is being set up over the next few days and updates will be posted. A link to the blog is forthcoming. Here's what we know so far: Norma has been released from the hospital and we met today with Dr. Leslie Laufman, her oncologist. Dr. Laufman confirmed that Norma has a malignancy of some kind, although the lab results are still inconclusive as to what type. We have elected to proceed with chemotherapy treatment nonetheless, and it will begin tomorrow, March 17th, and run for three consecutive days. This is followed by 21 days of no treatment and then it starts again. Many of you have expressed an interest to help in some way and for that we are truly grateful. Rest assured we will certainly take you up on your generous offers. We are in the process of organizing and planning Norma (and Ralph's) needs and will provide you with ways to help in very short order. For the time being, please share this email with anyone you think we may have missed, and send us their phone numbers and email addresses. This will allow us to muster Norma's support network most effectively, as we help her regain her health and return to the many activities she shares with all of you. If you respond to this email and don't hear back right away, please know that updates will be posted as soon as the blog is developed.
Keep us in your prayers. Norma, Ralph and family
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