Last January (2013), my mom was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. She did everything...chemo, radiation, and surgery to remove the tumor. As of a week ago, she was cancer-free. Until today.
She had been getting awful headaches, numbness in her limbs, exhaustion, etc. for a while. The doctors thought it was probably the chemo doing this to her, so they stopped that (it was the last session of her preventative chemo). They did an MRI just to be on the safe side. Today, we found out she has a tumor in her brain.
To say I'm devastated is an understatement. I was at work when I received the text and I broke down. No one is sure yet if it is cancerous or benign. All I know is that there's something there and they need to think of a game plan.
Luckily, my mom works at the hospital where they're doing all the treatments. In fact, she works on the cancer floor as a psychiatric nurse. So the doctors that are saving her life are her extremely close friends. I know she's in great hands (as it's one of the leading cancer hospitals in the world).
sigh It's just tough because we don't live anywhere close to each other (driving, I'm 9 hours away).
I wish I could give her a hug right now. She might not be scared, but I'm scared for her.
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