Had my regularly scheduled MRI back in April. Happy to say that my residual tumor remains stable. Am still having focal seizures. Last week I saw a new neurologist who recommended a change in my meds to see if we can't reduce the number of seizures I'm having and try and reduce or eliminate some of my other side effects. The last few months I' ( Read more... )

I am fortunate in many ways. One of the many ways is that I have always had enough. Maybe only just barely enough but, enough at any rate. And if there wasn't enough for life to be fun, I picked up more hours where I worked until there was a little more than enough. Today, I am feeling that I am lacking in a couple areas. I don't have enough ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Valentine's Day. I like V Day, even tho it mostly is a made up holiday that Hallmark established as a way to boost sales. I don't need fancy dinners or elaborate gifts, I just appreciate a day during the year when it is encouraged to tell anyone, even people you don't know all that well, that they are special to you ( Read more... )

I had a regularly scheduled MRI yesterday. The results were... everything is still stable - no changes. So, that was good news. I was more than a little nervous going into my scan. That's not so unusual, I think everyone is nervous. Thankfully my doctor doesn't make me wait long from scan until my appointment with her. I was especially ( Read more... )

I may have mentioned that one of the remaining side effects of my brain cancer treatment is that I now have some driving-related anxiety. I USED to love to be behind the wheel of the car... radio playing (loudly) and the windows down. Night or day, I enjoyed that. I never liked the 'thrill' of bad weather driving but with good roads under my ( Read more... )

I've things I want to do be done with today. Perhaps I'll be able to cross a few things off the Ta Dah! list ( Read more... )

While at Mayo their research study coordinator asked me to fill out a survey, once again. No problem. I have it done and am ready for him to call me for the answers sometime in the coming week. I did this before and he told me the preliminary results from that research was that regularly taking allergy medication reduces a person's chances for ( Read more... )

This is a long overdue update but I wanted to wait until we had all the information available ( Read more... )

So, my last MRI was a week ago. The flair or whatever it was is still there so, my doc here wants me to go to Mayo to have them do a scan with perfusion sequences so that we know for certain what we are dealing with. As I understand it (and I will be the first to admit that I probably don't understand it correctly) - that scan will monitor how ( Read more... )

DH has been dealing with the follow up re: the message from my surgeon from Mayo. Am so glad that he is so fantastic. (both DH and Dr. P) I'm sure that if Dr P. knew how much he was stressing me out he would feel horrible. Anyway, in the message from last week it said that he would like me to not have any more treatments and to have another ( Read more... )