In one of Mom’s early post-op MRI’s, the doctors saw another small mass elsewhere in her brain. Could have been a fatty deposit, calcium deposit, or… another tumor. If it was another tumor, that bodes really badly as, obviously, the cancer is spreading.

We just received confirmation that it is in fact another tumor. This one is located right behind her eye so while it’ll be hit by the chemo and they’ll figure out a radiation plan, there is no chance they’ll go in to remove it and the radiation does run the risk of blinding her in the one eye.

This is also a huge blow to the treatment plan as it’s common to have multiple craniotomys to reduce the mass of a tumor. With her cancer already metastasizing, I don’t think they’ll do that.

As this is already a terminal condition, it really can’t get much worse, but it just keeps on coming. Can we get a break at some point? Really, anything positive would be nice. From the beginning, we’ve just been told worse and worse and worse news.

To quote a certain seven-year-old battling leukemia on the phone the other day, “Fuck Cancer.”