How could this happen in a month?

• Thursday Feb 9: First Symptoms - don't think much of it. Mom went into her PCP for soreness on her neck and a sore throat. The Dr said it was a pulled muscle and prescribed a muscle relaxant.
• Saturday Feb 18: We went out to sushi for dinner. She told me that she had a lump on her neck and that her Dr prescribed muscle relaxants, which made her tired but didn’t take away the pain or growing of the lump.
• Sunday Feb 19: The lump is worse today according to mom. Since the following Monday is Presidents Day, she mentions that her PCP will not be in but she will go to urgent care if it’s not better.
• Monday, Feb 20: First trip to ER. An ENT specialist came to the ER from UCSF and collected a sample of the mass to send for testing. A CT scan was also ordered as well as antibiotics. Mom thinks its an infection in her lymph nodes.
• Wednesday, Feb 22: Mom says she is in a lot of pain and can’t get in to see the ENT until the following week. She called her PCP and obtained an RX for more pain medicine.
• Thursday, Feb 23: The ER Dr called to follow-up and told her to come back to ER if she is feeling really bad. Mom was really impressed that the ER Dr followed-up!
• Saturday, Feb 25: Second trip to ER. Different antibiotics prescribed as well as pain medicine.
• Monday Feb 27: The biopsy from the initial ER visit came back as malignant. However, they didn’t know what type of cancer it is.
• Wednesday, March 1: Third trip to ER. Mom was admitted to the hospital.
• Thursday, March 2: They performed another CT scan and she was transferred to the ICU to be monitored more closely. The Dr put her under for another biopsy of the throat and they weren't able to take out the breathing tubes after surgery.
• Friday, March 3: Diagnosis comes back as Nasopharyngeal carcinoma. 
• Saturday, March 4: They took out the breathing tube and had her on a ventilator mask. However, mom was in a lot of pain and asked for more sedation and the breathing tubes to be inserted again.
• Sunday, March 5: Mom is heavily sedated and intubated. They performed a bone scan to see if it spread to her bones.
• Monday, March 6: She is still heavily sedated and intubated. They perform the mapping in order to start the radiation and chemo treatment the next day.
• Tuesday, March 7: Still heavily sedated and intubated. Mom receives her first radiation and chemo treatment.
• Wednesday, March 8: Second radiation therapy happens. They also took a liquid biopsy to understand more about the cancer (thanks you Ethan). Mom is still heavily sedated and intubated. Drs confirmed it has spread to the bones. 

We are hoping that they will be able to wake her up from the sedation today or tomorrow (3/9 or 3/10). I am praying that I will be able to have another conversation with her and hopefully many more after that. No one deserves to go through something like this and anyone who knows my mom understands that she is the least deserving.