Dear Family and Friends

I'm sure most of you know but my mother has been admitted to Doctor's hospital. We brought her in yesterday, January 26th, around 2 o'clock after a really rough night. After x- rays and ct scans it was discovered that her right lung has collapsed. We spent all of yesterday in the waiting room (having taken over a complete area for ourselves-dam Parella Family) waiting on wheteher or not they plan to do surgery. They want to insert a stint in her airway to manually open it and help her breathing.

Our main concern when taking her in is how labored her breathing had become because we needed her to be strong enough for treatment. She is scheduled for a port to be put in on Monday and treatment is FINALLY scheduled for Tuesday. She will have chemo one day a week and radiation 5 days a week for 6 weeks and reevaluate after 8 weeks.


As of right now she is still in the hospital and i will TRY to keep everyone informed. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE understand that texting is NOT easy for us. Given, it IS easier than phone calls but it is still a lot. Today alone I (Dana) woke up to texts from 11 different people. And yesterday my phone never stopped. As much as we know everyone cares and want to keep informed, please realize that this is our mother in the hospital and we are not always up to texting her condition.

We will continue to e-mail when we can.

Thank You all for your continued support.
Kyle, Dana and Chad