Greetings and welcome to Foster Mom Health. It is my hope with this blog to let everyone know what is going on with my mom's health, what I am feeling, and how I am coping with all these new changes.
As many of you know on June 13th my mom, Linda Foster, had surgery to remove her bladder, uterus, ovaries, right kidney, lymph nodes, and part of her intestine in an effort to rid her body of a particularly virulent case of bladder cancer. This was her fourth cancer related surgery, third for bladder cancer. Previously in October of 2006 and February of 2007 she had tumors removed from the bladder and and followed up each with a six week treatment of BCG, a biological therapy for cancer. The cancer came back wildly after each treatment of BCG. It was decided to remove her bladder to stop the recurrence of the cancer. This led to the ten hour surgery she underwent on June 13th.
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