Mom continues to tolerate the new chemotherapy medicine without too many adverse side effects. In fact, her condition with this new medicine is similar to her condition while taking the cisplatin/Alimta combination.

She is tired, of course, but that is to be expected. Her appetite remains good and she has not experienced any nausea to speak of since the treatment on Monday, March 1st.

From a cognitive standpoint, she is up and down. It is unclear, and probably will remain so, as to whether the chemotherapy is causing more cognitive difficulty than her brain mets, or not. I will try and ask the doctor about that when we see him tomorrow. For those of you that have visited, thank you. It seems to me that when Mom is able to visit with someone besides Dad and I, she perks right up and can actually seem to be a bit more "together" than usual. I know she enjoys it and I believe it makes a difference to her.

Speaking of tomorrow, we go have the normal lab work that is done one week post-chemotherapy treatment, but this time we will also see Dr. Aurora. He wanted to see her and assess how she has been tolerating the new medicine and I suspect after this visit we will have our appointment for the next treatment, which should be on March 22nd, if the schedule holds true.

I feel like we are approaching more rapidly the time when difficult decisions will have to be made. That said, we continue to make the best out of what we have, and Mom is still determined to continue to fight as much as she can.