Week 7

We had a great doctor’s appointment to start Sharron’s round 3 of chemo last week. We met with her oncologist on Friday before treatment and he had lots of outstanding news to report on Sharron’s progress, based on her recent bloodwork. He said her progress is phenomenal for someone who has only had 2 cycles! The timeline will still be 6 cycles total (or 18 weeks), which is a standard course of treatment. Remission will be determined by a bone marrow biopsy at the end of the 6 rounds. Also, her treatments are only about 60% of typical chemo drugs and even so, her body is responding very well to that reduced amount. Also exciting news: she gained 2 pounds according to the doctor’s scale (our home scale says 4 pounds, even better). Although she’s eating very healthy, we’ve been incorporating some high calorie meals and snacks where we can and they seemed to have helped!

Visibly Sharron is doing amazing as well thanks to lots of beneficial physical therapy, she is walking with little assistance (just a cane for longer distances, but that is it!). She’s vigilant about getting her exercises in daily. There is no pain or struggle accompanying her movements and walking anymore.

Other fun things we did last week included a family birthday lunch at Debbie’s house and watching the Academy Awards at home with Val and the girls. If it wasn’t for the cold/flu season out there, we would get out with Mom to see some of those Oscar winning movies- hopefully soon!