WhatsupwithJan
WhatsupwithJan
Monday-October 24th,2005-4:00PM
Jan was having intermittent episodes of nausea today, and began vomiting around 1:00PM, so I insisted that we get an emergency apointment with the Oncologist. We saw him around 2:45PM, and he confirmed that (per the liver biopsy) the cancer was in the liver and was aggresive. Jan is scheduled to begin chemotherapy this Wednesday. She will be on a regimen of Taxotere- One day a week, three weeks on and one week off- to see if the tumor's size can be reduced and/or the tumor itself destroyed. They will do the scans again after the first session of chemotherapy to determine what if any progress has been made. If it is determined that the chemotherapy is working to destroy the cancer, she could spend an indefinite period of time on the chemotherapy regimen.
Jan will be exposed to the usual side effects of intense chemotherapy-loss of hair,nausea, brittleness of the fingernails etc. The fact that she has experience with high dose chemotherapy decreases the anxiety about what to expect from the experience, but doesn't decrease the less than friendly side effects associated with the regimen of chemotherapy she will need to endure. In the meantime, the doctor has prescribed stronger medications to relieve the pain and stop the nausea.
At this point we can only hope and pray that the treatment works.
I am feeling very sad now because Jan wants so much to live to see Veronica ( Nicki) receive her teaching diploma, and she wants to be there to experience Veronica's first classroom. She has a ton of her life invested in loving Nicki and helping her through the elementary, high school and college experience. I am so hoping that God will grant her the time to have this wish fulfilled. She also wants to see her grandkids, and enjoy Tyler as he grows in the development of his software skills and the sale of his projects. In the end, love is what is left, when everything else is gone...
Thanks for your continued prayerful support and may you all receive blessings more abundant than your years!
Pat
Monday-October 24th,2005-4:00PM
Jan was having intermittent episodes of nausea today, and began vomiting around 1:00PM, so I insisted that we get an emergency apointment with the Oncologist. We saw him around 2:45PM, and he confirmed that (per the liver biopsy) the cancer was in the liver and was aggresive. Jan is scheduled to begin chemotherapy this Wednesday. She will be on a regimen of Taxotere- One day a week, three weeks on and one week off- to see if the tumor's size can be reduced and/or the tumor itself destroyed. They will do the scans again after the first session of chemotherapy to determine what if any progress has been made. If it is determined that the chemotherapy is working to destroy the cancer, she could spend an indefinite period of time on the chemotherapy regimen.
Jan will be exposed to the usual side effects of intense chemotherapy-loss of hair,nausea, brittleness of the fingernails etc. The fact that she has experience with high dose chemotherapy decreases the anxiety about what to expect from the experience, but doesn't decrease the less than friendly side effects associated with the regimen of chemotherapy she will need to endure. In the meantime, the doctor has prescribed stronger medications to relieve the pain and stop the nausea.
At this point we can only hope and pray that the treatment works.
I am feeling very sad now because Jan wants so much to live to see Veronica ( Nicki) receive her teaching diploma, and she wants to be there to experience Veronica's first classroom. She has a ton of her life invested in loving Nicki and helping her through the elementary, high school and college experience. I am so hoping that God will grant her the time to have this wish fulfilled. She also wants to see her grandkids, and enjoy Tyler as he grows in the development of his software skills and the sale of his projects. In the end, love is what is left, when everything else is gone...
Thanks for your continued prayerful support and may you all receive blessings more abundant than your years!
Pat
posted by JansJourney @ 3:58 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:03 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hi Jan,
Just started working and I wish i was fishing. Hope everything is going well and Joyce and I are alwyas thinking of you.
Love
Nick and Joyce
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