Sorry for the delay in the update but fall has been keeping our family busy. After a week home from the hospital my mom was moving around the house, making grocery lists and planning family dinners like she didn't JUST have brain surgery! She had her follow up appointment with her neurosurgeon and neuro-oncologist down at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and they were very pleased with her recovery. She was thrilled to get the okay to drive and lift things less than 50 pounds, which means she can finally hold Tristan again :)
Together with her doctors we decided to follow a slightly different plan from her last course of treatment. We are going to avoid oral chemotherapy and brain radiation and just do IV Avastin therapy. She will be getting her infusions up here in Bellingham every 2 weeks and will have follow up brain MRI's down in Seattle every 2 months. Her first infusion was this Wednesday and went very well. Besides feeling a little tired for a couple days she tolerates Avastin very well. We are so thankful to have surgery over with and have positive hopes for her treatment to work again for her. More than ever we are spending lots of time together as a family and looking forward to celebrating Tristan's first birthday and Thanksgiving together next month. God Bless!!
