Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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LATE THIS MORNING SISSY WAS TAKEN OFF THE VENTILATOR!!!!

Scott & Tammy arrived late Monday night with no luggage, courtesy of Delta airlines :(  However, all is well now.  Scott, Tammy, Andy, Ashley, Jane & Ian took turns spending time with Sissy prior to her tube removal.  This afternoon the radiation therapy oncologist met with us and Sissy and told her that her ovarian cancer had returned and that they were treating it and that at a later time he would give her more information.  At 2:15pm Sissy had another radiation treatment.  The oncologist met with all of us to review the next steps, which are:  perform a specialized CT scan to pin-point all of the cancer in her lung/bronchial tube area, then complete the specialized radiation treatment today and moving forward.  The key being that they'll only be targeting/killing the bad cancer cells and not any good cells around them.  This radiation therapy will last a minimum of 3 weeks.  The next chemo treatment will be March 13th.  If all goes well, Sissy may just get to leave ICU tomorrow!

Sissy was requesting ginger ale, so that's a good sign! :)  It was SO good to see her talk today!  She looked really good - had good color that made you know she's doing better.

This evening we had dinner provided by Captian Le Blanc, the Captain of the Portland Coastguard base.  Ashley enjoyed a pure vegan dinner and dessert complements of Anne and Rob Leonhardt (one of Jane's co-workers).  We will all get to enjoy some of the vegan dinner tomorrow night :)  As of now (10:40pm), Ian plans to stay the night with Sissy in the hospital.  We sure are enjoying having Ian's brother, Andy, staying with us too.

Last but not least, Jane and I want to extend a HUGE thanks to Kirstin and Matt for always being there to help out with picking Cat up after school and watching her for us.

1 comment:

  1. That's such good news, thanks for letting us know. Way to go Sissy!

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