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So Mom is out of Urgent Care and has settled into her room on the 14th floor. I saw Margaret, one of Mom's nurses from last week, and she was sad to see me, knowing it meant Mom was back in the hospital. Two doctors who are affiliates of Dr. Pietanza met with Mom, examined her, and told her they would take a look at the MRI results from earlier today. They came back a bit later and said that the MRI revealed several spots on her brain which they suspect indicate that the cancer (bastard) has metastasized once again. Someone from radiation will meet with Mom tomorrow - these docs said that radiation can be very successful on the brain so we'll see. When we saw Dr. Pietanza in the hall earlier (before Mom was in her room and before the other docs met with her), she said that the chemo question is a bit of a moot point right now since Mom is so weak, nauseous and unable to really walk very far. This is no time to assault her system with some cell-killing badass evil toxicity. Okay Pietanza didn't say that last part - that's just me. Clancy, Ben and I will meet with Dr. Pietanza on Thursday morning to ask her our current list of 8,000 questions about what's happening and what we should do. Hopefully we will have some solid answers later this week.