What Will They Say?

I figured I could update y'all on Mom via the blog since updating on Facebook, texting & e-mailing is so redundant :)

Mom just spent 6 days in the hospital...a grueling, uncomfortable, painful, frustrating 6 days.
As some of you know, she was admitted to the hospital over New Year's for 4 days, treating her for diverticulitis. They released her, she never got better, only continued to get worse and therefore was put in the the hospital last Tuesday. They started treating her with antibiotics immediately, nausea medication, and pain medication, supposedly all caused from the Diverticulitis. Then, she sort of became the mystery patient and they weren't 100% sure she had diverticulitis. They need another scan of her abdomen area and noticed a large amount of fluid around her pancreas behind her intestine. They ended up removing 33 cc's of fluid, which in human terms is 5 1/2 tablespoons, which is a pretty good amount of fluid just floating around that's not suppose to be there! They did a culture and a biopsy on the fluid to figure out exactly what it was. There were no cancer cells found in the fluid, PRAISE GOD, and it was just determined to be infection, possibly caused from a cyst that formed on her pancreas, most likely from the chemo.
So, after 6 days, she was finally released from the hospital tonight. I think she was more looking forward to getting to sleep in her own bed more than anything!
The gastro doctor wants to do the procedure where the put the scope down her throat to check her stomach & pancreas in a few weeks.
Her oncologist said today that she probably won't be well enough for chemo this week, but maybe next week. He also plans to do another scan in a couple of weeks to check the status of her cancer and the status of the infectious fluid.
On top of all of this, she's going on her 4th week of not having chemo, which is frustrating because the chemo seemed to be working pretty well (as far as the cancer is concerned) before all of this happened. The chemo is stripping her body of all the bad (hopefully), but unfortunately a lot of the good too, which makes it difficult for her to stay well and her immune system up.
On a happy note, since she has been off of the chemo, her hair has started coming back...just a little peach fuzz, but it's still just as cute as ever. I personally think she's beautiful with or without hair, or with just a little peach fuzz.

Thanks again to all of you who have prayed, commented, messaged me, sent texts or called, visited or just thought about us during this time. Please continue to pray for her!

Mom is the strongest, most precious person I know. If I ever have to experience anything like she has, I only hope I could go through it with half the poise and grace as she has had. She's amazing and I'm lucky enough to call her my best friend.

I ran into someone at a restaurant the other day that has known our family for quite a while. She had such nice things to say about our family, but especially Mom. One of the things she said that was so true..."Judy has always had the sweetest spirit and touched my heart in so many ways."

What will people say about you when you're fighting a battle in your life?