Thank you for all the prayers and best wishes for my Aunt Sheila.

[SuiteDisney]

She goes in for a double mastectomy today. She originally thought that it was a mild form of cancer and wouldn't need chemo... but she sent my Mom this email last night.
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I met with my ongologist today. He seems like we'll get along rather well. We both joke with a wry sense of humor and have poker faces.

My cancer is worse than my general surgeon had indicated. There are approximately 5 categories that they check to determine how bad cancers are. 2 of my cagetories are good, 2 are bad and one I won't know until after the tests come back from the surgery, What this all means is that I will need the most agressive type of chemo. It will be given once every three weeks over a 3 month period. When that treatment is done, I will go on another treatment for approximately 4 months. If everything goes okay, all of my treatments will be completed by the end of June, 2003. The effects of chemo are hair loss, mouth sores, vomiting, diarrhea amd a partridge in a pear tree. My chemo will be administered through IV that is placed in a "mediport" that will be implanted during my surgery tomorrow. Chemo will probably start around November 12.
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I think the thought of chemo scares us more than anything. One of their other sisters was recovering from breast cancer and died because the chemo lowered her white cell count so much that she couldn't fight off an infection.

Please close your eyes and send a happy thought Aunt Sheila's way.

 

[iluvorlando]

My eyes are closed and I am thinking nothing but good thoughts and wishes!

 

[helenabear]

Wishing your aunt all the best with this surgery today and her treatments following. Hopefully all will go well with her chemo treatments and the can keep her as healthy as possible while going through them. I will keep her, and you & your family in my thoughts and prayers.