Life just doesn’t get easy, does it? Just when you think you are nearing the end of a road, you see a bend that asks you to go a distance further. Mom had a bit of swelling on her legs a few days earlier… I thought it would be an after effect of the chemo. Today Dr Ghosh said that it was because of the Herceptin.
She asked us to do a 2-d Echo again. Mom’s ejection fraction has come down from 65% to 55% so Ghosh asked us to hold off the Herceptin. Thankfully, mom told her that the 350ml of Herceptin we have left would go to waste. That would be a little over 50 grand down the poop chute. So Ghosh said she understood but a 10% drop in the ejection fraction meant that the heart was being affected by the herceptin, so in order to be really sure it was okay, mom would have to go through a MUGA scan.
So we are all trying to get an appointment for mom to get this done – if all is well, the Herceptin can be used on Tuesday next, just within the window period of its expiry… Goddammit.
So right now, mom’s getting her Chemotherapy. Let’s see what happens with the Herceptin. I feel like screaming!!!!
My Mom's Cancer 
take heart in caring for ur mom, what’s needed is love and support from ur end. I can see ur mom doing quite well. My love and prayers to all of you there. Take care n have a nice day buddies.
Thank you. 🙂 We are doing our best.
Beside Chemo, i would like to suggest going side by side with alternative treatment for your mom, like ingesting cannabis oil, cassava, seed kernel-apricot, apple, plum etc. There is so much of information about alternative treatment of cancer on the internet, take your time in digging relevant information and applicability tat you and your mom can opt best.
My mum age 73 yrs too is in advance stage IV colorectal cancer, we have opted for the cannabis oil, she’s on her 2 month ingesting
cannabis oil and doing quite well as of now.
My love and prayers to you guys and ur loving mom. Bye.
Thank you for the advice, Roko Tep. I shall look into it. We are giving her papaya leaf juice extract and that has kept her platelets in a good range. I shall check about cannabis oil.