# My Mom's Cancer--We Move On To A Brain Tumor **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836 "2005-12-02T23:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/21 "2005-12-05T11:22:05Z")
Very best wishes, mate. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/22 "2005-12-05T12:42:15Z")
**Bosda** I’ll be keeping your mom, your family and you in my thoughts and prayers. It’s always good to hear when stuff like this is caught early. May she be in remission for good real soon. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/23 "2005-12-05T13:12:24Z")
I wish there was something I could do or say to make this go away and make your mom magically better. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/24 "2005-12-05T14:00:56Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Moments of panic, yesterday. I think you’re to be forgiven for that, **Bosda**. News doesn’t get much harder to hear. Thank goodness though for the state of modern medicine and the most sincere wishes for a full recovery. Strength to your entire family. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/25 "2005-12-05T14:19:23Z")
{{{ **Bosda** }}} ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/26 "2005-12-05T22:21:15Z")
She has had regular follow-ups for the breast cancer, with chemo as needed, to which she has responded well. I’m very tired. ☹ Not of my fellow Dopers–just tired. ---
**Author:** ![Cranky\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cranky\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranky_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/27 "2005-12-05T23:54:31Z")
I wish you and your Mom all the very best and it’s very encouraging that the tumor is small and they’ve caught it early. Sending good thoughts, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/28 "2005-12-07T16:03:22Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > She has had regular follow-ups for the breast cancer, with chemo as needed, to which she has responded well. > > I’m very tired. ☹ > > Not of my fellow Dopers–just tired. We Brits don’t do hugs but I’ll give you a sort of half-embarrassed stiff-upper-lip pat on the back and wish you and (especially) your Mum all the best. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/29 "2005-12-07T16:12:10Z")
Damn Son, that’s mucked up. Hang in there. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/30 "2005-12-07T23:09:29Z")
3rd day of radiation. Her medication is helping. Stress has Mom & Dad at each others throats. They almost got thrown out of the Krogers because of it. Quarreling in the store, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/31 "2005-12-08T01:08:48Z")
Bosda, you’ve had a time of it lately. So sorry, man. Sending healing vibes to Bosda’s mom. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/32 "2005-12-09T14:38:06Z")
My Mom reported a hallucination. She was laying in bed, looking up at the light passing through the trees outside our home, filtering through the venetian blinds, & being cast on the ceiling of her bedroom. She says that the lights turned to falling flower petals. Then, to a pearly/grey fog. Then it vanished. It was so real for her, she checked the floor for petals. I don’t know if this is caused by her medication, by the radiation treatment, or if her condition is much, much worse than she is letting on to me. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/33 "2005-12-09T14:51:07Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > My Mom reported a hallucination. [Background] My FIL is going through chemo right now for a tumor on his spine (don’t have any more details). We went up to visit him this past weekend, I hadn’t seen him for a couple months. He looked… washed out. Last summer he had his appendix, prostate, a kidney, and his bladder removed due to cancer, and for all intents and purposes was still recovering from that. [/background] He told me he’s been halucinating. Don’t know if it’s the drugs, the chronic pain, the lack of sleep, or the sheer terror of what he’s going through. Probably a bit of each. I can’t believe how frail he is now. I was always intimidated by him when I was a teenager, - he’s 6’2", _very_ Sicilian looking, with a really deep voice, etc. and for the most part he still intimidates me. But when I saw him saturday, I think a light breeze could have blown him down. Makes me really sad. **Bos** , best of luck to you and your family. Take it easy. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/34 "2005-12-12T00:32:16Z")
After a weekend of rest, the treatments pick up tomorrow morning. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/35 "2005-12-12T06:29:40Z")
I’m so sorry. ☹ I hope your mother gets better soon. Both of my parents are cancer survivors so I’ve been there and done that. They’re survivors and so is your mother. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/36 "2005-12-12T18:32:34Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > My Mom reported a hallucination. > > She was laying in bed, looking up at the light passing through the trees outside our home, filtering through the venetian blinds, & being cast on the ceiling of her bedroom. She says that the lights turned to falling flower petals. Then, to a pearly/grey fog. Then it vanished. > > It was so real for her, she checked the floor for petals. > > I don’t know if this is caused by her medication, by the radiation treatment, or if her condition is much, much worse than she is letting on to me. A lot of things can make you hallucinate. Ambien, for example, has that as a not-too-uncommon side effect (about 2% of people will hallucinate), and I can see sleeping pills being offered to a cancer patient… Although I’m definitely mostly hoping for you that it’s something more minor, it really is possible that it’s unrelated to her tumor. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/37 "2005-12-25T19:44:11Z")
Mom’s radiation treatment series ended a day or two before Xmas. We wait & see. In the meantime, Dad has a bad case of the flu. As he has a heart condition, & diabetes as well, we are watching him closely. He turns 65 tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836/38 "2005-12-26T08:58:36Z")
Flower petals are not a bad halluciation, I would think. It shows, to me, that her mind has some form of peace and contentment during these very trying times. Thanks for the updates, Bosda. I am keeping the three of you in my thoughts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-cancer-we-move-on-to-a-brain-tumor/333836.md?page=1)