Melbourne!

This morning, Mum had an appointment with her oncologist, (a doctor who looks after patients with cancer). She is also due to have Chemotherapy today.

Chemotherapy is a drug used to fight cancer cells, but also in the process of doing this, kills good cells too. And because Mum, has had so much chemo, due to when she had breast cancer in 2007, her veins in her arms have collapsed.

This means that no medicine can be given to her through a drip (IV LINE). Due to this, Mum has had to have a surgical port put in the left side of her chest.
It is placed underneath the skin, so that when Mum does need to have drugs given to her, she can have it through the port. This is also how the chemo is delivered.

When Mum was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she had to undergo a double mastectomy, (this means surgically removing the breast(s)) and a double breast reconstruction. A reconstruction, occurs when the surgeon, has already removed the breasts and then brings the muscle from the patients back, and attaches it to the muscles at the front of the chest, and adds implants to make the breasts look more natural. This is usually about a 7 hour operation.

Tomorrow Mum leaves for Melbourne, with my Aunty. The flight isn’t until 1 am tomorrow morning, but that’s okay because she's pretty nocturnal anyway. :)

She has a bit of a 'bucket list' happening, and because she has never seen snow, this part of the list, is to make snow angels with her sister :)

She will update me, from Melbourne and is due back Sunday.

Talk Soon!Chels.