First, good news my mother did get her air mattress.
I went up to rehab before lunch and my mom said "can we stop somewhere to eat, the food here is horrible". So we left around 1:30 and stopped at Chick Fil A. We then drove to the drs, around 25 minutes north. I prayed that we would not have to wait forever in the office. Everything I read on the Internet said he was always running about 50 minutes late. God was good!!! We got there early and actually got in before the appt. time. One lady was very angry as she said she her appt was at 2:20 and it was 3:30.
We didn't wait long in the room and we actually got to see the Dr not the nurse practitioner. He was wonderful!! He did say that he felt everything that has been happening is from the cancer and didn't want to wait too much longer to start chemo if that is what my mom wanted. She said yes she would try it. He was very honest in saying that some people tolerate chemo and some don't.
Because of her age and health he wants to do the first chemo in the hospital. She has to be released from rehab first so the plan is to be released on Saturday. Then hopefully she will be home for 4 days and then check into the hospital. She will have to come off her blood thinner so they can put in the port. He would like her to go in on a Thursday, get the port on Monday and then chemo on Wednesday. Chemo will take 6 hours. He said they would do a combination of two different chemos and give her stuff for nausea and vomiting. If she tolerates the chemo well in the hospital then it would be every 3 weeks and be in his office.
That means hopefully chemo will start in about 2 weeks.
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