Half way there

My mom has officially been through half her chemo treatments after today. Currently she is resting and is pretty exhausted. To know that she is half way done with the first step of the process out of three is a pretty good feeling. The next step being surgery and the following is radiation. She has strength like none other. The past couple days she has been doing really well. She worked monday which she really enjoyed seeing all her work friends again. It is only the second or third time working I believe since starting her chemo in the beginning so it's great to see her doing that well and a really big deal. She has always liked her job and I think it is defiantly something that she misses the most about what she used to call normal. In some ways we have fallen in to a new normal, but with chemo nothing will ever be completly set in stone. It varies with every treatment how how she feels on a certain day, no saying "normally two days after shes fine than at four days bad". The last treatment she had she stayed weak the longest and I am just hoping that this time she can feel a lot better. I think she said these last half of the treatments are a little different, and wont necesarilly make her as nauseous, but more like tingly and prickly in her feet and hands. This sounds funny but its pretty miserable especially since this already occurs and now it is just going to get worse. Kelsey is on her last week of college of freshman year, doing the exam thing. Dad is doing the usual and supporting mom. Grandpa to me, my moms dad, is the one who took her to chemo today. Her family has done an amazing job of creating a rotating schedule on who takes her and sits with her all day so dad doesnt have to take off of work every time. I dont know if you guys know what getting chemo is like but basically my mom starts off by having an appointment with her doctor. Its pretty cool theyre on a first name basis and she just checks over things like my moms blood counts and makes sure everything looks good. Than, my mom has her own private room with a comfy chair and things like a T.V. Latley she has been having to wait awhile for the next step. It is actually a nurse who comes in and gives my mom the chemo, which is in an IV that hooks to the port on her chest. The IV takes like four hours and there is a couple bags. That's pretty much all. It takes her a little while to feel the affects of it going through her body and she almost seems normal at first. She isn't allowed to drive for like 9 days after every treatment because of the heavy meds that she also has to take everyday. The meds goes in circles, like they will be some that she has to take because they fight the cancer or whatever, but than she has to take meds to reverse the side affects that the meds give her like nausea. All in all theres a lot of meds. Only four more treatments left though :) I again thank everybody for everything they have been doing. The generosity never stops. I will update again soon. Have a great night.