I guess by easier, they just meant quicker!
And, of course, it did come on top of all her other treatment.
Hope she's feeling cheered-up after her shopping trip anyway, and that you'll get a little time to yourself again when the visitors start arriving.

Brenda

Brenda in UK--Diagnosis 30/5/07--undifferentiated carcinoma in right jawbone and muscles. Stage 4
6/7/07--new diagnosis primary is in lung. Finished 4cycles of palliative carboplatin/gemcitabine
therapy September 07
Now dying to live!