And the doctor let it all out

Yesterday's doctor visit at MD Anderson was unexpected. It's funny how you think you can know what's going on with cancer, because that's just ridiculous. The disease is continually surprising.

Apparently, the doctor was wrong at Emory, and my mom's cancer has spread to other parts of her body. Terrible news.

She has severe digestive problems and the tumor is a lot bigger than I thought. She has surgery on Monday to try to unblock her bile duct, and if it fails again, she will be on a feeding tube and then the doctor will proceed to bypass surgery, which is a much more serious surgery. We're talking a 8-10 day recovery and then a couple of months before my mom can start chemo.

Chemo needs to be started ASAP.  If the surgery on Monday is successful, then my mom has about a 2-4 week time table of recovery until Chemo, so we decided to at least try this.

Her chance of the major surgery(Wipple), several months down the road is about 40%. She has about a 50% of living. If the cancer decides to take over, then she'll die within the next year. This is big stuff. A lot of hope though- 50% is pretty high if you ask me. 

The main prayer is that my mom can get her nutrition to normal, she is at the poor level right now and there is no way she can beat this unless it goes up. Her nutrition alone can be what kills her. Her body is telling her not to eat. Pray for my mom to know that it's a mind over body disease. Pray for supernatural strength and optimism. Courage. Pray for life!