But anyway....Mom went to the Dr. last week for her normal chemo treatment and met with the Dr. because she has a really bad cough and was throwing up blood. Her CAT scan showed thickening of her lung lining and another small type of mass on the lower portion of her lung. The original scum sucking tumor is on the upper portion of the lung. The Dr. believed that she had some type of infection but wasn't sure what it was. So no chemo for mom this week. Which, by the way, she is still going every 3 weeks....for the last 2 years!!!! She has never missed a chemo treatment. They wanted to move her to once a week but we didnt feel that her body could handle that. And when you get such a long, high dosage of chemotherapy it's going to create certain side effects. Right now my mother is losing her ability to walk up stairs. Not only because she can't breathe well but because her legs are just not working anymore. She is much slower in her walking and fell up the stairs yesterday. She is also forgetting alot of things. I'm worried that these are side effects of a tumor leaning the portions of the brain that control her movement and thought process. But it could just be a side effect from the drugs.
