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Each patient has their own 'cocktail' of drugs that are specifically mixed up for them, if they are doing infusion therapy. I did not do radiation, but I am sure that they are super careful about what & where they radiate.
I know from dx (may 1st) to my first infusion was 2 months to the day. My hair all fell out 5 days after the 1st infusion. Not ready for THAT, for sure.
It sounds like your aunt has got her head buried in the sand. It's SUPER hard to deal with the truth, and working really hard at your job is one way to 'ignore' what's going on.
Stay in touch, through her whole treatment. That was hardest for me. People were kind to say 'let me know what I can do' and then ghosted me. I get it. Being around someone who is normally active and fine--and then they're not, it's scary.
My DH barely spoke to me for 8 months and couldn't bear to look at my bald head. I also lost eyebrows and eyelashes. Yeah, w/o a LOT of makeup, I didn't look like me.
I call the waiting (I have been there) the "dread waiting room" and it is the worst room in the house. It is so hard to be without answers, to get tests approved, then to go for those tests and to await results, then to get consults on those results and make decisions.
I am hoping your Mom has a good support system, a good friend in the area or other family. It is so difficult to negotiate all of this and at some points your hearing just almost cosed off; you just can't hear what they are saying.
I wish you the best. I hope you will update this. It is so hard to be not right there for give support.
The colorectal and lung aspect however can be addressed now. It is unlikely that she will be able to return to work unless her employer is willing to maintain her remotely. And even then, you are far away. Therefore she should make a decision now as to what's going to happen if/when this gets worse. Is there enough of her money accessible to y'all to deal with it? Or does she just want to deal? If it's just hush-hush with her on the money, then you leave her to deal until it's not.