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Haven't posted in a while. Things have continued to be rollercoasterish. They put tubes in *everywhere*, practically. The chest tube didn't bring down her white-blood-cell count, so they put in an abdominal tube for the fluid around her spleen. Then suddenly, the next day, the doctor called mom and said he'd presented her case and her newest blood numbers to a consortium of cancer docs at the hospital, and they unanimously agreed that she doesn't need chemo or more surgery -- just take out the chest tube and send her home. Her wbc was apparently really high (180? I don't know) at one point, and now it's 11 or something.

Originally, when my mom thought she'd be going home around the end of the month, she said she wanted me to go home for a while and let my sister take care of her. I told the kids I would try to take them home with me for a bit to get them some respite from being home with their mother and mine. Now she's going home two days before Christmas, so some stuff might change.

( putting my options here for help in my pondering. may edit later )