Journal entry by Laura Hawkins —
Today Joanne and Rich went to see her oncologist. They reviewed her blood work and was given the green light for round 2 of chemo. They also discussed her referral to “Dr G” (as we are calling him) who is the doctor in Toronto who can perform surgery to rid Joanne of her cancer. Her oncologist has given Dr G her name and we will wait for his call to set up an appointment. Her oncologist said she will need to have been on chemo for 6 months (end of August) and then have 1 month off before the surgery. We are all remaining incredibly hopefully that Joanne’s body will respond well to the chemo and Dr G will select Joanne for this operation.
Joanne is now off the IV and reported that she is coping. She will start the IV again for 5 days on Wednesday after her2nd round of chemo drip is removed. Joanne and Rich also went to see Dr Marsden yesterday who is her (amazing, amazing) naturopathic oncologist.
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