Oncology visit

We were able to meet with Moms oncologist, Dr. John Ward, who happens to be good friends with a childhood friend of Dads, The Platts. He and his team met with us and gave us the plan for the next few weeks. We are still on the 'healing' phase of things and will be for another two weeks, but after that we will be able to begin Moms chemo treatments. In two weeks Mom will go in for what is called a PET scan. This is a specific scan which will cover her entire body, head to toe, seeking out all of the cancer cells in her body to let them know what they are starting with. Then after her 1st round of Chemo they will repeat her scan to see if the treatments are working. Right now Dr. Ward said her chemo treatments will be on an out patient basis unless something changes after Her PET scan. Her physician was very honest and positive at the same time. He let Mom know that this type of cancer is extremely rare, with less than 7000 cases last year. He also let Her know that this type of cancer was not acquired via something she did or didn't do with her diet or lifestyle. This type of cancer is also not hereditary, or genetic. So, we are now going to go forward with this and help Mom out as she heals.