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My Saturday sucked. (I work 12 hr shifts on weekends at a nursing home if you didn't know) One of my 'difficult' residents started her harassment upon all of the nursing staff (as she does daily), and I can usually take it all in and keep my mind straight and basically do what I can to please her but every now and then I can't handle it. I came close to a nervous breakdown but thankfully my coworkers handled the situation while I was outside cooling some steam and finally all was well again.
My Sunday was amazing. I couldn't have come into work with a better attitude or overall outlook on life. I left very early for work and I sat in my car and called up my mom. FYITowards the end of summer I found out that my mom had cancerous tumors throughout her body that generated from her colon and then spread to her ovaries, stomach lining, and liver. Obviously this was horrible, devastating news..The Dr.'s made it sound like she wasn't going to make it and even labled it stage 4. The only part they went to operate on was her ovaries because they first thought it was ovarian cancer..that was then when they saw all of the other tumors...so she had her ovaries removed but that was it...Since then she has been undergoing chemotherapy. I was at my wit's end trying so hard to pretend it was all just a nightmare.
well... last week she went to undergo all of the proper testing to see if the chemo was even working. She expected the results last week and told me that if they were bad she wasn't going to call me..which she didn't. I was worried to death but tried hard to brush it aside as much as I could. When I called her yesterday expecting to hear the worst she tells me that the tumors in her stomach and colon are completely gone, without a trace...no further spreading! AND the spots on her liver are shrinking and the DR.'s say that with her last 6 treatments they expect them to be small enough for surgical removal!!!!!!!!!!!! Meaning, my mom would be cancer free. I don't think I can truly explain with words how this makes me feel. And yet, I get this news right before Christmas! I'm amazed, astounded, shocked, enlightened..I just don't know. The weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. I'm really happy.
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