Where do I even begin! We have had such a fun summer filled with lots of family! We have loved every minute of it! My Gammy (Mom’s Mom) and Pa G came and stayed with us for a week after my Grandpa Sales and my Mom’s aunts left. My Mom was so happy to see family. She really enjoyed all of their visits. The weekend after my grandparents left we went to Colorado to see some of our cousins. It was a last minute thing, we weren’t planning on going until the day before we left. Our cousins are from Oklahoma but were in Colorado because my cousin Taylor was playing in a softball tournament there, who by the way is an AMAZING pitcher! It was a short trip, we left Thursday night, my Dad drove all night and we got there Friday morning. We watched lots of softball games, went out to eat, went to the mall, and then left Sunday morning. It was so good to see some of my family from Oklahoma that we don’t get to see often. It just makes us miss them all more! I really wish we lived closer! Maybe one day… ;)
My Mom is finished with all of her radiation treatments as of Tuesday, June 30! The radiologist didn’t think her skin could handle much more. Her underarm looks pretty bad. It had been really hurting her the last week of radiation. The Dr. gave her a cream to rub on it every day. I would cake it on for her really thick. She is extremely red from the radiation and her underarm looks like somebody took a really hot iron to it. It is peeling and gets irritated really easily because her skin rubs together. It will get better though!
My Mom and I walked in Relay for Life this last weekend in Smithfield. We had never been involved in this before and it was so much fun! It started at noon on Friday and ended at noon on Saturday. We were on the Budge Clinic team, someone from each team has to be on the track at all times, even in the middle of the night. They had softball games going on in the middle of the night and karaoke. Cancer never sleeps, that's why this relay is all day and all night. It was an awesome experience and so many people participated! My Mom and I bought a lot of raffle tickets (all money went to American Cancer Society) and ended up winning a lot of fun stuff! My Mom got a huge basket filled with TONS of pink stuff! Mugs, garden tools, humming bird feeder, regular bird feeder, wind chime, and so on. I won a fun basket filled with lots of hair products. My Mom also won a free foot zoning session, she has never done it before! They also had a survivor dinner on Friday night that we went to. That was fun because my Mom got to mingle with all of the other survivors. It was a really fun time! I encourage all of you to be a part of Relay for Life!!
Today my Mom and I met with Dr. Ben Jacob, her oncologist. She finally had her first blood work drawn to see if the cancer is gone! The cancer marker that they drew today were CA 27-29. These are the markers that they will check every three months for the first year. Unfortunately, the tests don't come back the same day, it takes two days for them to run it. We will know the results by Friday. Dr. Ben-Jacob also put her on tamoxifen today. This is the pill that she will take every day for five years, it binds with the estrogen so her body can't use the estrogen which in her case was feeding the cancer. Tamoxifen does have some side effects. The ones he told her she needed to be aware of were uterine cancer (go figure) and blood clots. He told her to make sure she is getting her pap smears regularly, this would detect uterine cancer and to notice any soreness or redness anywhere that could possibly be blood clots. They would usually show up in the legs or lungs... scary. My Mom has also had some soreness on her spine the past few months, she told the Dr. this today and he wanted to go ahead and do an MRI of her spine so we can clear our minds. We are praying that it will come back clear. My Mom says she doesn't think it could be cancer but then again she said she didn't think she had breast cancer either. Better safe than sorry. We went ahead and had the MRI this afternoon, Ben-Jacob should call us with the results Thursday or Friday. I am praying that the test result for the cancer marker will come back normal and the MRI will be clear! We could use all your prayers as well!
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