new updates

I am going to give you an update on Paula. She has been feeling ill for a while nausea and headaches sinus issues so I thought she just Had the flu. She kept telling me it wasn't the flu, but my mind kept thinking she just got scans and tests and everything was OK so I thought it couldn't be anything else. It started getting really bad so she got an appointment at Huntsman and went in last Thursday. The doctor agreed with her and ordered some new scans. He called us Friday morning and explained that the tumors in her brain had gotten bigger and they were going to get us into her brain doctors. The appointment was yesterday. We were able to look at the scans from last week and the ones from before and saw that the tumors definitely had grown. The brain doctors said that wasn't the biggest the concern it was the swelling in the brain. and they showed us those scans and basically it showed that half of her brain had swelling. They expect surgery is coming but they want to try and see if the can get the swelling controlled through medications. As long as she doesn't have any major issues we go back in a month for another MRI. If the swelling is still there we will schedule the surgery then. The picture above shows her brain the small white dot in the left center is the tumor it is about twice that size now. When they showed the swelling it basically covered the whole left side. The smaller tumor is not seen on this view. I wish I would have taken a picture this time but didn't think of it.

Breast Cancer Awareness

Tis that month again. I am sure you already aware of it due to all the food companies having the pink ribbons on their products. I just want everyone to tell your loved ones to get regular check ups or self examinations. We used to be of the mind set it won't happen to us not now anyway Paula is to young. Well it did happen. If someone you love has any major changes or lumps get checked out. Please. Also when purchasing items at the store and you decide to buy something based on the ribbon make sure they are donating to legitimate charity. We have found over the past few years that many companies do donate but it is to charities that don't help with the research or funding other programs. Cancer hits everyone in one way or another. Help yourself by doing everything you can to keep your self cancer free.