First off – HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope everyone had a great New Year’s Eve and got to celebrate the new year with lots of joy and love.

On to the update – As you may recall, my mom had some (1.2 liters) fluid drained from her left lung last Friday. She was feeling a lot better initially. When she went to Deerfield to get the XGeva shot (makes her bones inhospitable to cancer cells) they did an xray and found the fluid had returned. So now she has to have a catheter placed in her lung. This will allow them to drain the fluid that builds up without her needing to go into the hospital. She will have a home health nurse come daily or every other day to drain whatever fluid has built up. We are hoping this will help with her shortness of breath and give her a little more energy.

She’s at Gardens Hospital for this one. We are very lucky to have one of my best friends father, who is a very good cardiothroracic surgeon, placing the tube. So we know she’s in good hands! She’s in the hospital now and will have the placement in 2-3 hours and they will keep her over night for observation.