Richmond Family Updates

(written by Becky)

Hi all,

We are, perhaps, at our lowest emotionally. Please keep our (and especially Mom’s) emotions in your prayers? It’s draining to have to live with cancer as a reality day after day. It effects everything we do from the soaps we buy to how we clean the house to a rigid set of rules for food and drink. It’s alot of work.

Mom’s latest scan (last week) showed another small degree of growth. The amount of growth itself was not that significant, but the fact that this is the second negative scan in a row was. She is now officially resistant to her current treatment.

She has two choices: a clinical trial out of Dana Farber in Boston or conventional chemo. The clinical trial is in it’s second phase and has had some success, but Mom is apprehensive because only 20 people around the country are in it. On the other hand, it’s targeted pills and not the globally invasive drugs of regular chemo that attack everything in your body, the good and bad. However, Mom’s reaction to the two rounds of regular chemo she had in July 2010 was relatively ok and this was the period when we had the biggest amount of success in fighting the cancer.

We’ll keep you updated to what she choses to do, but for now, would you please pray for our emotions? Please pray again depression which is a very real thing when you fight something like cancer for so long. Please pray for strength and energy. Please pray for discipline to stick to the routines we know are good, like diet, nutrition, exercise. These things are hard to do last minute when you are so tired and need to be planned well.

Again, thank you for standing with us!

BY THE WAY: TOMORROW, 10/16 is MOM’S 60th BIRTHDAY. LET’S BOMBARD HER WITH MESSAGES!

 

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