a little sprout

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. - William M. Thackeray I have been dreading this update for two weeks now .... no, actually I've been dreading it for a little over two years. This week was supposed to be a ‘chemo' week for my Mom but instead the Dr. said it was time to stop treatment. The chemotherapy isn't working anymore as my Mom's cancer marker numbers keep going up. Her Dr is afraid that at this point the treatments could be doing more harm than good; leaving her open to illness and infections (such as pneumonia) and he's afraid that its killing her white blood cells now. Mom told us that he said her chest x rays are "horrible" and that her lungs appear brittle. The tumors keep growing and treatments are just not helping anymore. ** Mom got oxygen delivered to the house this week too. Her blood oxygen levels are very low and she's always trying to catch her breath, so as hard as it is to take this t...