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Originally Posted by DapperButch
Jo, how are you doing? How is your mom?
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Hi Dapper, and thank you.
She's not doing well. Her weight is down to 101, and she's been feeling sick, exhausted and dizzy. Some of it was dehydration (a perennial problem after an iliostomy and colostomy....she has no colon left at all and that's where most fluid reabsorption happens). She went in and had IVs of fluids and that helped some but she still feels very rough. Walking up one flight of stairs to her bedroom leaves her out of breath...although she claims she can walk well enough that she refused when I said we'd meet her with a wheelchair at the airport (Orlando is
big and there's lots of walking).
We're moving up the timeframe for her trip down here...so it'll be end of September when the kids here have a 4 day weekend, so Rooster can spend more time with her as well. She wants to go see Miami and Key West, although it will mostly be a driving tour I'm sure, peppered with restaurants and finding nice places to sit and visit rather than adventuring around.
Luckily her friends are being incredibly wonderful, and I owe all of them a huge debt....they're bringing her meals, mowing her lawn, doing her shopping, tidying up her house...whatever she needs.
She still hasn't told me stage, etc. and "doesn't want to know" herself...so I really don't feel like I can push it. She did tell me that the oncologist, when discussing the chemo, said that without it he'd give the cancer an 80-90% chance of recurring....so refusal wasn't really an option. That sounds like it was pretty bad to me. She hasn't said more about the "belly wash" procedure....so I'm not sure if they're planning that after she finishes the regular chemo or what. It's on my list to ask her...
We're doing the "one day at a time" thing in a big, big way around here.
Hugs,
Jo