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Hi everyone! Well, my mom gave us another scare last night. She was feeling kind of sick most of the day, but we didn't think much of it. Then a few minutes before dinner was ready my dad and I heard our names being shouted. I just thought she needed help with something, and my dad was finishing up cooking, so I went to see what was going on. She was sitting on the floor staring straight ahead. She asked for her 'bucket' (we really call it her barf bucket, but it's gross that way.) and some tea and crackers. So, I gave it to her, thinking maybe she's got the flu or something.

Later, she didn't want to come downstairs to eat, and asked to eat it on the floor. Now it was starting to get weird. After eating dinner we called her nurse from the oncology department about what was going on. They said we needed to get to the emergency room right away. She was severely dizzy and on the verge of passing out.

When we got to the hospital they gave her a wheelchair. After telling them about what was going on they said she had a bad case of vertigo. Then she mentioned that her left ear had been hurting for about a month and it sounded like loud white noise. They did a CAT scan of her brain just to be sure. They came back and told us it didn't look very good, and showed us the result. Her left side, the bones that show up looked very different than the right. The doctor said it looks like the bone that's a little further in than the inner ear looked extremely corroded. Sort of spongy, and kept telling us that was not normal.

They rushed us over to a bigger hospital for an MRI. The doctor said it looks almost the same as what the CAT scan had said. He said the best scenario is just that the sinus around it might be infected. The next worse scenario was the outside of the bone being infected. The worst scenario was that the inside of the bone was infected. He said with luck it might just be the first scenario, and the antibiotics would take care of it. She has to get a biopsy of the bone soon to see if it's infected on the inside. We'll see after that when the results come back. We didn't leave the hospital until about 2:30AM! It took me about another hour to fall asleep after getting home I was so riled. I'm really worried about her!