AlamoPA Mailing List: Fw: Joyce update

[Joyce Melsha (pnj_tx]

On Friday, July 17, 2015 4:59 PM, Joyce Melsha <pnj_tx [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

Well it appears my peg has healed in sufficiently to begin chemo treatments.  Have 6 cases of canned "milk" in my kitchen, taking 5 a day and one at midnight. 

  Still have a good amount of bronchitis hanging on, its a bear to get rid of.  I'll be getting 2-3 hours of chemo at the cancer center on Monday and then they will attach a pump to my port that I will wear through Wednesday morning, pumping more chemo into me.  Then the pump comes off and we skip a Monday and go through the same 3 day routine the next Monday.  We don't know how long this needs to go on will be getting CT scan to see if cancer has grown during all my complications the past few weeks, or hopefully stayed the same or even shrunk some more.  Will pray its shrunk or at least held its own.  We didn't intend to have such a long period between treatments, but so goes my luck.

I also am seeing a specialist about the "sighting" on my thyroid gland.  Maybe biopsy.  Maggie's kind of a jumpy little one, she is afraid I'll disappear again.  Judy and Jim have been so good to us -you all know what a blessing they are and I'll be forever grateful. 

Will be thinking of all of you at Bob's memorial tomorrow.  God Bless you all.   Joyce