Hi everyone,

My husband had his 8th and last chemo treatment today and will have his last rad treatment on Monday. I thought I'd feel happier about finishing chemo today, but not really. I guess it's because we have this waiting now to see if it worked and realizing that the rest of our lives will be going from follow-up to follow-up. I'm not sure about his feelings, but we'll talk about that next week when he finishes up.
Clint tolerated the treatments quite well and only the last week experienced mild nausea, but he increase his eating a bit and that seemed to help.
He did not have much pain at all, minor skin problems from the radiation, and the expected dry mouth and loss of taste, but only minimal thick saliva so far. I asked him today what he thought overall and he said it wasn't as bad as he was expecting.
He was able to drive himself to all of his appointments. Last night he even baked a couple pumpkin pies to take in to the therapy staff. I urge him to rest, but he feels like doing things.
Once he sits, he does fall asleep pretty quickly, so I know he is tired.
This forum has been a great help and provided an enormous amount of support for me.
I have a new hurdle now...my mother is having a PET Scan tomorrow (Saturday) I just found out yesterday. She recently had a chest x-ray that showed a lung mass. She is 5 yrs out of a breast cancer diagnosis. All of my family is on the mainland and I hope they can help her through this. I don't feel like I can leave my husband at this time to go care for her. They waited to tell me this until Clint was finished with his treatments, and were even hesitant to tell me at all with all I have on my plate now. I think with all I have learned going through this with my husband that it will give me strenghth to get through this and also help my family to deal with it as well. I just wish I had more time to get through this post therapy issues before having something else like this to deal with.
Vicki