Good News & Bad News

Our son is coming home this weekend that is the great news.  I am looking forward to seeing him again.  I miss him a lot!!
Now for the bad news.  My mom was diagnoised with bone cancer this week.  My sister stopped over on Halloween and was telling me about it.  She said my mom had the report and she was going to read since my mom didn’t understand it and my sister would.  She is a MRI tech and sees alot of stuff.  While she was reading the note her face was getting whiter and whiter.  I said what does it say.  Wrong thing.  She said it’s not good and will probably be her last Christmas.  As far as she could tell from the report.  She couldn’t understand it 100%.
My mom had an appointment at the Onocologist on Monday.  My mom asked my sister to go with her to help her understand what they would tell her.  My sister told my mom to tell my dad.  My mom didn’t want to tell my dad.  In the meantime my sister is emailing my dad and telling him what is going on.   She didn’t want him to be shocked when they went to the Dr. on Monday.
So for a week I have been sick to my stomach, can’t eat, can’t sleep am feeling anxious.  Just plain sick about all of this.
Monday evening my sister calls around 7 and says they just got back from the Dr.  The appointment was at 3.  She does have bone cancer and it is a very slow moving cancer.  She has probably had it for 3-4 years and they are going to treat it with…..get this hormones!! She won’t have to do chemo or radiation as long as the tests come back ok.  That is how slow moving it is.  My sister said once she saw the MRI she knew what it was and that the Dr. wanted to cover all grounds when giving his description of what it was.  We thought it was multiple melinomia.  Thank god it wasn’t.  I don’t want two strikes against me!!
My mom had breast cancer back in the late 70’s.  Honestly she shouldn’t be here right now.  She had a tumor the size of a golf ball removed and 5 of the eight limp knobes they removed had traces of cancer.  She refused chemo (she didn’t want to lose her hair).  And opted for Radiation only. The Dr.s think that may be why she is alive today.  I say she shouldn’t be because those are small chances and back then they don’t have the drugs they do today. 
So even though the news isn’t bad, it’s not the worse it could be.  My sister thinks she will probably die from something other than the bone cancer.  And the Dr. said he has been treating a woman with the same thing for 15 years.  So that sounded a little more promising.  I just hope they are not sugar coating anything and we get a huge surprise later on.  I am just not ready for that yet. 
So we are all going to take turns taking her to the Dr. for her hormone IV and making meals and cleaning and stuff like that.  Hopefully she has no side effects from the hormones.  I think my sister said she may have hot flashes.  Well I know exactly what that is like.  HEHEHEHE
So that is my news flash for now.  Hope all is well in OD land!

ME