Richmond Family Updates

(Written by Becky)

The results from Mom’s scan are not what we hoped for, but as a dear friend reminded us tonight, there are no surprises for God.

Mom’s cancer has grown almost 30% and there are also some new spots on her liver, bones and lymph nodes. We were shocked, stunned a speechless for several hours – disbelieving the news because Mom feels so good.

The plan of action is still being hashed-out, but it’s looking like this: Mom will stop the Tarceva (daily chemo pill) and is scheduled to resume conventional chemo through an IV next Friday the 18th. On the 16th, she’ll have surgery to get a port installed again to make IV’s easier. Chemo will be every three weeks with scans after every two rounds. We’ll resume our rigid regiment of an extra clean house during chemo and lower white blood cell counts and go back to her “crisis diet” of only raw fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and juicing. She’ll increase her dosage of Vitamin C IV and other alternative treatments that she had reduced due to previous success and budget because they aren’t covered by insurance. We’re discussing the idea of her not working for the time being and get lots of rest, so visitors will be needed to make her relax!

We’ll fight with all we’ve got.

And we’ll pray.