Very best wishes, mate.
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.
I wish there was something I could do or say to make this go away and make your mom magically better.
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.
{{{Bosda}}}
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.
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.
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.
Damn Son, that’s mucked up. Hang in there.
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.
Bosda, you’ve had a time of it lately. So sorry, man.
Sending healing vibes to Bosda’s mom.
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.
[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.
After a weekend of rest, the treatments pick up tomorrow morning.
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.
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.
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.
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.