Update- Chemo

My mom had an appointment yesterday afternooon with the Oncologist. We are still waiting on accurate reports of the chemosensitivity tests from California. With the information that we have thus far we plan to go ahead with the same chemo treament drug that Ruth recieved last time. She tolerated the drug as well as could be expected- she was not very sick, continued life as normal as possible- going to school, running and doing as much as her energy level would allow. As of right now she is not a candidate for radiation therapy as it is very wide spread ( a lot of little tumors) in her abdomen. The doctor explained we will "manage the disease/chronic ilness with chemo" as much Ruth wants. She is planning to go through the initial 6 treatments of chemo (3 weeks apart) and after it is done we will evaluate how effective it was and go from there. We will never totally get rid of the cancer with the chemo (unless it is in God's hands- and it is) so it is managing it to live a normal as life as possible. The cancer may not come back for a month after the 6 treatments or 10 years or more. We will do more check-ups after the 6 treatments to evaluate where she is and what is happening and it will be for her to decide what she wants to do.

Ruth remains positive, is eager to get treatments underway and looks forward to getting back to her normal routine of running on the treadmill and school.

Ruth is getting her port put in for chemo this afternoon (a port is where they hook up the IV for the chemo treatments) this is about a 15 minute procedure.

Ruth has an appointment with her surgeon next week down in Denver. She also hopes to start chemo sometime next week.
Thanks for your prayers and support. Go out and live life!