Update on Lisa

Hi you all, I hope you haven't given up on checking in on Lisa. I was able to text with her for a few minutes yesterday afternoon and so I am going to give you an update on what she told me. I don't understand all the medical "lingo" so I hope I can actually give you the information correctly. She continues to press on under much pain. She is on so much pain medication to cope with these migraines she gets and is just trying to keep out of the hospital as much as possible. Lisa's last chemo treatment is next week and then she will under go radiation treatment every day for the next 7 weeks. In the mean time, she now has a new head doctor outside of Kaiser. He has looked over Lisa's records and seen some areas of concern regarding her treatment at Kaiser. First, she has had two spinal taps done with reports stating there is too much pressure.( I'm not sure where but I believe it is the brain). He wanted to know what Kaiser did about this. Lisa replied to him that she never got results from them regarding these spinal taps. He said that spinal fluid on the brain is normally suppose to be a count of 10-20, with a 20 being extremely high. Lisa was at a 25 and that was over a year ago. This would apparently explain the bad eye sight she has developed and how certain medicines work for her or not. She said she will have another spinal tap soon (I think to assess her numbers again) and then possibly surgery to remove the pressure. This might be the source of her migraines and as you can well imagine the frustration of all the time and money they have spent and put into her care when something could have been done to relieve her of this problem. So, aside from her battling cancer, I think her main source of pain and discomfort has been from these migraines. This is what keeps her from being able to keep in touch with many of us, because she is on so many pain medications so that she might be able to stay at home, she can't drive let alone concentrate on being able to answer us all. I know she covets all the texts and messages she can get and the encouragement she receives from them, so thank you for that!

Please continue to keep her in your prayers, for this doctor to be able to help relieve her of these migraines. For her last chemo session and for the next 7 weeks of daily radiation treatments. Please continue to pray for their family and for the kids. I know Lisa would say thank you and that she loves and misses everyone!

Chemo Rounds

I didn't just want to leave the last post in with out some kind of update, but there is not much I can tell you right now. Lisa needs all our prayer to get through these rounds. I have realized that it takes all her strength just to get from one round to the next and that was with her going every other week. I understand they intend for her to have weekly rounds as well, so it might get even quieter when that happens. Just know that she is trying her best to hang in there and stay out of the ER. She told me she is on so much medication that I am sure it is hard to do anything else. Precious "well" time will obviously be spent with the kids as much as she can. I'm sure she appreciates all the encouragement she can get from us texting her even if she can't find the strength to text back right now, so keep on giving her that! I know that when she gets on the other side of this she will have so many words of wisdom and an incredible story to tell us, but for now we wait...

Love you Lisa, here's to seeing you soon! Praying so much for you and your family!

Love,

Suzi

Hospitalized Again

Hi, I heard from Lisa yesterday, I know she has been trying to catch up on her texts so you might be updated already but,she returned to the hospital on Friday and is hoping to go home today. She will have another round of chemo on Thurs.

The main complication Lisa is having seems not to be so much from the cancer itself, but more the migraines. She has been going to Kaiser and they are now going to refer her to UCLA as they can't seem to do anything else for her migraines there.

As always she stays up lifted on her messages and always asks how we are doing. She even said she had been worried about me, lol, and I was like "you have to be kidding me." (In a teasing way) She continues to fight this cancer and the complications with a positive attitude. When she is home it is precious time with her family and sleeping.

Thanks so much for praying for her!

Love,
Suzi

Chemo Yesterday

I know we get concerned when we haven't heard from Lisa in a bit and usually our concerns are very valid, well the same holds for this post. I texted Kaitlyn this morning for an update on her mom and she said that Lisa had been sleeping A LOT and then went for another round of chemo yesterday and the same side affects happened again. The intense vomiting and the migraines. They are currently back in the ER. As soon as I get some more info, I will update here and please feel free to Facebook me a message if you get an update from her and I will post it here.

Love,

Suzi

Lisa's return to the Hospital

Well, Lisa did get to go home, for about 6 hours and then she ended up back in the ER with severe bone pain, a high fever and vomiting, so back in she went. She said her chemo treatment for tomorrow had been canceled, the doctor felt it was too much for her body. They also inserted a pick line so that her poor arm can heal and hopefully this will be a better option for her. She said maybe she'd get to go home tomorrow and that her counts were up today.

Through this all she still continues to think of asking how others are doing and never complains.

Love,

Suzi

Lisa Went Home!

Ok, so I could not share the great news with you all because I was not home, but yesterday afternoon, Lisa was awaiting Scott, Kaitlyn and Matthew's arrival with cake for his birthday and the doctor came in and said she could go home!

God is good and answers prayers! Stay encouraged Lisa!

Love,

Suzi

Quick Update

So, Scott, Kaitlyn and Matthew are at the hospital with Lisa having a small family party for Matthew today! Yeah!

Love,

Suzi