Things took a downhill turn after my optimistic post from the last challenge thread. On the second day of the clinical trial at Sarah Cannon Research Institute she went in to get a port put in, which should've been a roughly 15-minute procedure. The doctor botched it by making two mistakes - first hitting an artery paralyzing her arm, and then upon attempting to repair the damage it induced a stroke. It's extremely rare but also an unfortunate risk. That resulted in not only getting kicked out of her trial, but the recovery process meant going without any treatment during a very vital time.

She eventually got on chemotherapy and did fairly well all things considering. It wasn't long after the Maintenance therapy started that she developed an infection we later discovered was pneumonia. We honestly thought it would require a couple of days in the hospital at most. She checked in on the first official day of Summer, and we got to watch part of the Jaws 50th airing on NBC that night together. By day 2 she was moved to the ICU. On day 4 she was so heavily sedated from the pain medications that it was really the last time I got to speak to her. The antibiotics and later steroids were ineffective against the infection. She passed away on the eighth day. All of it was unexpected because the notes on the scans literally said the cancer wasn't progressing. That wasn't the case. They were giving us false hope in an attempt to make it easier on the family, which is flat-out lying. So yeah, fuck cancer.