[Bdons-SD]

Here's an update. My mom had surgery almost 2 months ago, they removed the tumor successfully as well as about 13 inches of bowel, it was 13 cm in diameter. They also removed 6 lymph nodes, 3 of which tested positive for the cancer. she woke up with a colostomy bag which they will remove and "hook her back up" with another surgery around thanksgiving. The reason for this is they found some cancer "plaque" near the main artery that feeds blood to her leg, they tried to scrape as much away as possible but it was too risky being that close to a main artery. They had to have her on the temporary colostomy bag so the healing process was shorter and they could get her into chemo sooner. She went in to chemo after 2 weeks instead of the original 6 weeks they estimated before. this is in an effort to get after that plaque they found. She has had 2 chemo infusions with a whole new "cocktail" as they call it, way more aggressive then the the stuff she lad last year and pre surgery. She is scheduled for 2 more and hopefully she will go back into surgery to get this all wrapped up. The radiation treatment is still unknown. And obviously her chances of 100% remission are at risk seeing how they found a little bit of cancer plaque, but hopefully the chemo will take care of it.