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For anybody who might be interested in getting to know a little about who my mother was, her obituary is online here:

http://www.lucasfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Phyllis-Fulbright/#!/Obituary

She's gone

Thanks everybody. Got here around 5. They removed the ventilator about an hour ago. Now we wait. Prayers for strength

She had a really major seizure this morning. They just found something else in her brain. A type of infection of a sort that sometimes happens because of the brain tumors and radiation. It's...

She's been in for a week now. Still unresponsive. They had to put her on a ventilator which isn't good. She was breathing above what the machine was giving her, so they actually turned it off for...

Oh, and yes, I wore a mask and washed and sanitized the Hell out of my hands [emoji14] pray that she doesn't catch anything from me...

Thanks guys. I made it up here several hours ago (thank God I didn't get pulled over for speeding) and sat with her for a while holding her hand. She would lightly squeeze it sometimes, but it...

There's no change as of today. She is still unresponsive to stimuli and people. She'll be awake, but it seems as if she can't see or hear anybody or maybe there's just something affecting her...

But do I want to chance it. If by some freak .0001% chance that she still catches something from me, do I want to chance being the one to cause premature......

Thing is, no matter what, if I go...

initial tests reveal no changes in her brain, but a lot of cloudiness in her lungs and severely high white blood cell count. Could be pneumonia, could be congestive heart failure. They are leaning...

Thanks guys.

Got a call from dad early this morning. Mom collapsed sometime during the night and was too weak to even lift her arms for dad to help her up. He had to call 911 and go in to the...

Mom isn't doing well right now. Called the oncologist at 4:30 this morning and went in. The chemo has dropped her white cell count dangerously low and is in danger of infection which is very bad...

Latest update:

Mom finished her radiation last week and feels pretty tired and weak from it. She fell again in the foyer after retrieving the mail the other day.

Today, she went in to have her...

Time for an update.

She has completed her final dose of radiation yesterday and had another consult today. They're trying to get her blood sugar down so that she can have a PET scan and will be...

Biopsy results show that it is the most severe and fast moving kind of breast cancer. They will begin whole-head radiation today to try to shrink the tumors and then a more targeted radiation...

Still waiting on biopsy results to find out what type of breast cancer she has.
Good news is that the steroids seem to be working and reducing the swelling in her brain which helps with her...

Won't get biopsy back for a few days. She is showing signs of diminished mental capacity right now. Could be anesthesia, might not be. Don't know. I'll probably drive up tonight before I don't...

Body scan came back this morning. She has a lesion in her breast, some in her lungs and her lymph nodes are swollen. Plan is to biopsy the one in her breast. The Oncologist believes this started...

Thanks guys.

Latest update: there are 3 masses, 2 in the frontal lobe that are 2.5 centimeters and one about an inch or so at the base of her brain at the spinal cord. That one is certainly...

Thanks bro.

The latest update is that the CT scan showed 2 masses in her brain. They sent her to the ER to see a neurologist. She's waiting in triage for a spot right now. Dad's phone is almost...

Dr thinks it's her heart or neurological. CT scan ordered today, cardiologist tomorrow.

Thanks, Jake

My sister's mother in law was going to take my mom in to get blood work done this morning. She called my dad at 9:15 to tell him she was sitting on the shower floor again :( I'm...

My mother has collapsed in the shower twice now. The first time, she kinda fainted and could not get up. Luckily her phone was close enough she could crawl to it and call my dad home from work. ...