Update 1-13-10

Last night Renee received some difficult news from her doctors. They told her that they have tried what they can to kill the cancer and it is now time to work on giving Renee some quality of life. They started the chemo that she did in March (the one that shrunk the tumor drastically) today and they are hopeful that it will shrink the tumor in her lung as well as the one on her spine. They will start radiation on Monday. For now, surgery is not an option.

After draining her lung since yesterday she sounds SO much better. She is breathing a lot better but is still in a tremendous amount of pain. They have put her on a lot of pain medication causing her to be very loopy and she is sleeping a lot. They are saying that the stent is working and so beating the pneumonia is just a matter of time.

I talked to Renee this morning and and asked her if there was anything else important that she wanted me to put in her blog and she said that right now she is living day by day. She had no idea that she was going to wake up yesterday and run all the tests they did and she had no idea that she was going to have her lung drained and tomorrow will bring all new things as well. Some will be good and some will be bad but the important thing is to stay positive. I BELIEVE that she will fight through this as she always has. The drugs she is on makes things look scary and it is very difficult to see her like that but that is just the drugs. Renee is a fighter and a good one at that. She has beat her stupid cancer many times and will do it again with all of our support. I know it is difficult not being able to go visit but the doctors are limiting her visitors to family. Renee still gets her texts and voice mails and I know that means so much to her. If she doesn't respond right away you can always check the blog for updates. Thank you so much for continuing to BELIEVE in Renee and having faith in her. Please pray for to continue to fight like we all know she can. God bless.
Audrey