A Day to Recover

Today has been a low-key quiet day of recovery. Vivian isn't feeling particularly awesome, but we weren't expecting anything significant in the first 2-3 days after the procedures. Our best indications of how well everything is working is when she regains a healthy appetite and the jaundice decreases. Her oncologist came by the house today to check up on the patient and discuss where we go from here. The big question we have right now is if she should try chemo again. The blockage in the liver (caused by the tumors) caused a lot of pressure and considerable pain. That's the whole reason we moved away from any direct treatment of the disease and leaned into palliative care. If we've taken care of the blockages and she starts feeling better then it may be possible to try to treat the disease. Will going on chemo again provide a better quality of life? I guess we wait to see how much better she's feeling in the near term and discuss the possibilities and probabilities. Her oncologist will be checking in next week as well to see how Viv is doing. On a different note, thanks to everyone who has been checking up on Vivian and the family and offering your help and support. She's not used to so many people dropping what they're doing to help her - she's often the person doing that. She is, however, handling it with heaps of gratitude.