clarinette, lovespink, and IrishLake, prayers headed your way.
camom, thank you for your well wishes.
My mother had her first chemo treatment today. It seems that the treatment went as well as can be expected. She's in good hands - her oncologist trained at NYU (where my dad went to med school) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering (where my mom practiced for a few years).
My mother has put the kibosh on surgery. She's seen the surgery from the anesthesiologist's side, and she doesn't want to experience it from the patient's side - she'd rather die. But we're hopeful that the chemo and whatever other treatment the oncologist suggests will get her through.
We will just have to take it one day at a time...