Today I picked mom up and took her to the doctors for chemotherapy again. No more clinical trials right now because of the growth of the cancer and the pain she has been experiencing. We believe that because she did so well with the chemo last year, she will again have success with it. This time she is getting Carboplatin (she had it last time as well and worked) combined with Taxol (she has not tried this one and I will post info later). She did well today. They gave her pain medicine and she was a little loopy, but she seemed better today than she has in a couple days. The chemo does wear you down and she may loose all her hair now (they told her she would last year, but she didn't lose it all. It does fall out so it most likely will, but after chemo is out of her system, it will grow back!). I don't know how many rounds of it she will have to do and radiation may become a suggestion down the road for a few hot spots where most pain is, but for now we wait and see what happens. She will also experience nausea (which has already started) and a side effect of the Taxol is mouth sores. She may not be able to talk as much because of the dehydration and dryness, but her energy is up and she looked great this morning and of course she is still going everywhere in her high heels!!!!
-Vanessa
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