Today was a good ...good day!!! Jan 7, 2011

1-7-2011: Today was a good ...good day!!!

Posted Jan 7, 2011 8:26pm

Today was a good, good, day. My Mom is doing o.k. she had her best day today- then ever! As you heard... We got the bone marrow biopsy back and there are no traces of Leukemia! which means the first rounds of chemo WORKED! we were so happy to hear the news- she is not out of the woods, they are still going to do the bone marrow transplant if we can find a match because they found that my mom has the FLT-3 gene. Its a mutation receptor gene, which is not good in her case with AML leukemia. It means that there is a very good possibility of the leukemia cells to return, but the fact she beat the first round is very promising and the doctors are happy with that. 1 day at a time. The chemo wiped her out BAD, so hard on her and all of us- sores in her mouth and down her throat, she couldn't eat a thing :( its been a hard week. but the doctors say that this week is the hardest, so now they are giving her shots to boost white blood cells, so we should see an improvement in her energy- :) but today was a great day for her, she did great and she's eating allot more today than ever.... so that's good, we are happy with each day- we see an improvement everyday and we are hopeful.
Today Gladys (her close friend) and I were with her all day today- My mom was in great spirits, she even walked around the bed almost by herself, and we were so happy- she even joked with us and did a little dance, and shook her bootie :) we all laughed it was good to see my mom back!!!!!! I gave her a back rub, a foot rub and head massage today- she likes it when I do that. She ate really good today too.
My mom loves hearing from all of you- I read her all your messages each day.
My mom sends this to you all:
She says to you all "thank you for all the prayers..... they ARE WORKING! xoxoxox"