January 2012

January 1- Trip to the ER. Complications with the port turned out to be just bad bruising.

January 5- Echo heart scan to make sure mom's heart can withstand the chemo.

January 10- Saline is added to her tissue expander.

January 11- First round of chemo. She will receive 4 rounds of very strong chemo that consists of 2 different bags of chemo and 2 bags of anti-nausea medicine. After the first 4 rounds which occur every other week she will get 12 more rounds of a different chemo and that will happen weekly. After that, she will have to get radiation 5 days a week for 6 weeks.

January 12- Shot for white blood cells. She will have to go back to the cancer center the day after chemo for the first four rounds for this shot. 

January 13 & 14- Chemo hit mom hard. She was very sick and tired.

January 16- Mom decided to shave her head. The Dr. said all of her hair would be gone in 2 weeks after the first chemo treatment. She did not want to see it fall out so we went to Aveda and shaved it! She got a beautiful wig and is even more gorgeous than before.