Busy doing medical things

I’m writing this on the Amtrak train heading to Bloomington, IL. Dave and Madi will be waiting to take me the last 40 miles home via truck. (Madi and I both love truck rides.)

Scans ended up being fine but there was some initial concern and confusion due to how the radiologist wrote the summary. My oncologist made calls to make sure all was unchanged.

Next Monday (3/25) they will attempt to aspirate the cyst on my lower spine. There is a 50% chance it will work and I really really hope it does because if it doesn’t they have to remove it via surgery.

I have a telephone consult with my brain neurologist next Wednesday and brain surgery will be scheduled after that call. I had hoped to attend a metastatic breast cancer conference in April in Philadelphia but that will have to wait until next year. The Brain Tumor Nurse Navigator called me today with more information. I won’t be able to drive for a few weeks or lift anything over 10 pounds. She said I will be exhausted for 5-6 weeks and just want to be a couch potato. I hope I can take that opportunity to shorten my stack of books to be read.

I appreciate your prayers. Please include Dave and our three children.