LIBERATED !!!
The Berlin mom went into the hospital AND got sent home today - freed - WITHOUT having to undergo a sixth round of chemo. Everything is apparently OK (lab work, sonograms, etc.), as she learned from all the tests and doctors talks they made her spend the day there for. That wracked her nerves so much we had to remind her to cheer for getting through the whole business!
HOORAY FOR THE BERLIN MOM!
She doesn't even have to go in for blood counts, just for a check-up in three weeks or so. She's emerging from the treatment back into the normal world and feels just fine, doesn't have any intention of taking them up on the rehabilitation program she could have to "get back on her feet", since, as she puts it, "I'm already doing everything I ever did or want to do. I want to be at home without having to go anywhere."
Congratulations on having successfully dealt with 7 months of nearly non-stop treatment of a very severe condition. Operation, radiation, chemotherapy - all finished and we're assuming the Berlin Mom is as fit as the fiddle she sounds like!
Congratulations on having successfully dealt with 7 months of nearly non-stop treatment of a very severe condition. Operation, radiation, chemotherapy - all finished and we're assuming the Berlin Mom is as fit as the fiddle she sounds like!
Hurrah! Can't wait to get to Berlin and celebrate with/for her! Give her my love and lots of hugs and kisses and high fives!
ReplyDeleteNow she's just hoping to fight off the three-week rehabilitation program the doctors and insurance have planned for her. She's determined not to go unless they can explain how and why it would be good for her. "I still have to run around to get forms filled out," she says, and we still have to remind her that she is indeed OUT to do it, instead of lying in a hospital bed with an IV dripping into her!
ReplyDeleteBy the time you're here, she'll have realized her achievement, I think, and will know if she has to go to the Spreewald to a spa-hotel for the rehab on July 22 or not.
Yay, I'm glad she got the all clear! Just in time to enjoy a lazy summer.
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