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   After the six months of Chemo, she had a two month break and then the radiation began that was across country. It took a five hour plane ride to get there. I was writing her e-mail letters all the time. She seemed very happy in her e-mails. It took two months of radiation and when she came home she was a brand new woman. She had a new out look on life. Her and I bonded the way I have always wanted to bond with her. It was the best time in my life. Then three months later she started getting sick again. We were told it was a side-affect of the radiation. I remember being on the phone with her telling her to get to the doctor but she would just come back at with "I just got back from there a week ago". My mother was very stubborn.
   Then there was a phone call I will never forget. I was talking to her and she didn't sound like her, her words were very slow and she was slurring. when I got off the phone I said to my sister "mom doesn't sound right." That night she was back in the hospital, after many tests we found out why she sounded the way she did. Her calcium had shot up through the roof. The doctors said they had never seen anyone alive with that high calcium before.
   The day she got out of hospital, I was going out of town for three weeks to see a friend so I gave my sister the number and told her to keep me posted. After about two weeks of me being at my friends my mother was going to be moved to the same town I was in, to get more tests. I called her and almost every day to tell her how I was doing and to see how she was. Then one cloudy day my sister called me and told me that my mom had three days to live. I broke down in tears on the phone. My friend was sitting beside me. She held my hand not knowing what was said to me. After awhile my sister and father came to get my son and I. Then off we went to the to the hospital to go see my mother.
   When we got there I didn't know what to expect. We walked into her room and the woman laying on the bed was not my mother. It was some other woman who was very pale and thin. I didn't want to believe that the woman who was laying there was my mother. I sat beside her. My sister sat beside me and my father sat on the bed. She looked at me and said "I have no idea on whats going on. They said if this Chemo didn't take then there is nothing more they can do" Thankfully that Chemo did work. After two more weeks of being there she was moved back to the hospital at home