Ruth/Mom/Grammy is now halfway through her 35 radiation treatments and she continues to receive chemotherapy once a week. She is doing great and she continues to amaze the doctors. Dr. Barker called her his "Poster Child" this week for how she is enduring radiation. Her throat is red, but she doesn't complain about it, and she continues to gargle/swish with a prescription mouthwash to help with the radiation side effects. Food has either lost its tastes or tastes wrong, but she continues to make herself eat and she has only lost a pound or two depending on which office is weighing her. Her skin on the outside of her throat is not bothering her, but she has lotion from the doctor if it does. When Susan, Dr. Nugent's PA, looked over her lab report this week, she said that over time, her lab results have improved instead of worsening.
I hope all of you out there who are reading this and praying for Ruth/Mom/Grammy understand the power of prayer and how your prayers are helping her endure the treatements and holding her up throughout them.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP PRAYING, especially as we get into the second half of of her radiation treatments!
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