March Immunotherapy

 Written by Alyssa.

Writing this feels like the equivalent of me saying, “But wait..there’s more!” 


Yes, Mom HAS finished her chemotherapy treatments, but she will continue to have monthly Immunotherapy treatments for the next two years(24ish total monthly treatments). Today Mom and I were discussing how two years seems like such a long time, but when we put it in the perspective of treatment numbers, then saying twenty-four treatments makes it sound a little more manageable. 


Mom has been fighting a bad cold over the past week, and at her appointment with Dr. A last week, he noticed right away that she seemed a bit out of breath. He ended up sending her for an X-ray, and there was no pneumonia! Praise God for giving Mom the strength needed to fight off her illness!


This week was Mom’s first time receiving only immunotherapy. She’s had only chemotherapy before and had both chemotherapy and immunotherapy before, but she’s never received JUST the immunotherapy treatment on its own before. This did seem to go well.


Dad wasn’t able to come to treatment with Mom today, so I ended up bringing her. I unfortunately have had a cold, so I didn’t go in with her. Today’s treatment went well. This is the one that is slowly dispensed through a machine. Mom said the nurse who gave her the injection gave her the least painful injection she’s ever had! Afterwards, we stopped at a local Starbucks because Mom wanted to have her first Matcha since finishing chemo! Mom wasn’t allowed to have green tea(Matcha)  while having chemo. 


Since Mom’s treatments will now be monthly rather than weekly, we will be adjusting how often we post on the blog to reflect this as well. There might be the occasional post from Mom in between, but most of our posts will now be monthly.


“Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” -Lamentations 3:21-24

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