The results of the Brain radiation

I visited the cancer clinic this morning to hear the results of the MRI on my head. Good news! The brain tumour had shrunk from 2 cm to 1.5 cm. That might not seem like much but it shows the treatment worked and the cancer is at least knocked back, and at best its dead. There's no way to know which it is.

I'll be getting an MRI on my noggin every 3 months from now on to see what it does next. I'm going to ask Sandy if we can get an MRI for the garage. It would save me a lot of time and we could plug it in at the neighbours when they weren't looking.

So I guess that's as good as we could have expected. Now if summer will hurry up, I can get some planting done.

Carolin

Home from SF

We arrived home yesterday afternoon. We did bring home strep throat. Another round of antibioatics. My throat is better this morning after being in a lot of discomfort the last 3 days.

We had a nice trip - a little sun, a little rain, lots of good food and some shopping of course.

Now back to the basics of driving Jessica to gymnastics, diving and soccer. And then driving myself to appointments.

Not much else to report.

Love to all.

Hope you had a nice Easter.

Carolin

Chemo #3 - Round 4

The nurse called me last night to tell me that my white count was not high enough but the Dr. was going to let me go ahead with chemo. I get a week off now. The chemo almost had to administered by an IV in my hand. They couldn't get blood return from my port (they normally can't) but the IV would run by gravity either. They have to be very cautious when administering chemo, that it is going into the vein as it can cause serious tissue damage if not. They finally had me lay in a bed and that got the IV flowing. Whew!! That was a close one. After that the chemo went fine.

I saw my neck doctor yesterday. Alignment is still good. He had a hard time seeing the bone in the area so he is sending me for an MRI. I should hear next week about a date. I need to go back through my blogs and count how many MRI's and CAT scans that I have had. More than a normal person I should think.

Jessica and I are off to San Francisco tonight to visit my sister and her family for a week. I have taken some anti nausea medication already to head things off early. Hopefully I will feel good tomorrow.

If anything note worthy happends I will blog from her house. If not then I will blog again next Wednesday.

Happy Easter to everyone.

Love Carolin

Chemo #2 - Round 4

Monday was lab day and Dr. day. My white counts were good so the chemo was a go for Tuesday. I didn't actually see the doctor because I didn't have any concerns.

Tuesday chemo went fine. They were about 1 hour behind schedule but I made it in time to get Jessica from the bus.

Tuesday night was bad. I guess I forgot about the side effects of chemo. Spent most of the night awake with nausea. Didn't actually get sick but had my head in a garbage can enough times that I wish I would have. Wednesday I was exhausted. Sandy drove me to my MRI appointment at 7 am and then brought me home. I slept until 11 am and then tried to watch some TV. Promptly fell asleep on the couch. Went back to bed and slept until Jessica came home at 3:30. I layed on the couch dozing until Sandy came home at 5:30. Good thing Jessica was happy to just watch TV. Was back in bed at 8 pm and slept until 7 am this morning.

Thursday morning now and after almost 24 hours of sleep I am feeling better. Tummy is still a bit queasy (sp?) but I can at least keep my eyes open.

A bit rainy and dreary today but that is fine as I still don't feel like doing too much.

I will get my MRI results on April 27 when I see my brain surgeon. This is to see how much of the tumor is gone. As I have so side effects I am expecting good results. But I have been fooled before.

Bye for now.

Love Carolin