Tomorrow I am acoompanying my mother to the hospital. She is scheduled to have surgery to remove a tumor in her right lung. The doctor told me that he is sure that it is cancer. His plan is to remove the lump and send it to the lab for testing. The results will come in while she is still under anesthesia, and if the find that it is benign they will just close up the wound. If malignant, they will have to remove the entire upper third of her lung and then will have to plan what kind of therapy to follow.
I’m trying to keep her spirits up, but we are both quite worried. She is eighty years old and is not sure that she has the strength to battle the “big C.” Regardless, it will be a long road ahead. I don’t want to lose my mom.