My mom had a follow-up appointment with her doctor today to have some of her stitches taken out, her catheter removed (hooray!) and to get the results from the tests on her lymph nodes. The good news was that 9 out of 10 of her lymph nodes were cancer free. The bad news was that one of the lymph nodes had a cancerous tumor in it, which means that she will need to start radiation treatment as soon as she is completely healed from the surgery. She will probably be having radiation 5 days a week for 6 to 8 weeks, but not until at least November.
This was not the news we had been hoping to hear, but we are grateful that there are medical procedures that can hopefully stop the progression of the cancer in her body.
Perhaps I'll get to come back to Utah to welcome in Winter as well as Fall.
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