April 1/2 - Taking It Slow

This might come late for a few folks. It’s definitely slow going, she’s still feeling very weak. She is moving around, and she did get to take a shower. We’ve been negotiating how to arrange the right combo of pillows in bed and on the couch. I even got one of the pillow wedges from Sara (Carmer…McMahon…yes and). We’ve also been using the baby monitor we got for Fionn when he was super sick.

In less domestic news we heard from the surgeon:

The surgeon checked in today. He said that of the 22 lymph nodes they took out, 2 had cancer in them. He also said that the margins were really good. So, she will have to have some chemo for her to be considered “cured.”

She’s still feeling super weak, but Dr Pietro said that at first she will probably lose weight but to keep nibbling and she’ll feel better each day.

We’ll find out in a week or so about the chemo in the follow up with her first surgeon.

As far as the margins go: of the 22 lymph nodes around the tumor, only the two closest had cancer in them.

Good news? Yes. The best news, no. But still a great prognosis.


Only forward!