Morning folks.<\/p>\n
So…not so much of good news on Friday.\u00a0 Here’s the lowdown:<\/p>\n
A) The swelling from the radiation is that of a likeness that my doctors have never seen.\u00a0 And it\u00a0may miraculously go away.<\/p>\n
B) The original shot they were radiating is dying, but the\u00a0“flair” is profoundly larger.\u00a0 Which means\u00a0the tumor\u00a0has grown so significantly that, well, you know.<\/p>\n
I go\u00a0in for another MRI on June 3rd.\u00a0 And if the miracle didn’t happen then they need to open up my skull for another deeper biopsy so they can try to see what’s going on.\u00a0 Although I think they already know.\u00a0 Clearly the Temodar was not working to stop anything from progressing.\u00a0 Nobody “said so”, but it appears that I’ve now progressed from Oligoastrocytoma Grade 3, to a Gliobalstoma Grade IV.\u00a0 The most cursed of all brain tumors.\u00a0 The biopsy (unless the miracle happens) will tell that.\u00a0 Although the scans pretty much show that already.\u00a0 It was the size of a quarter.\u00a0 Now the flair is a large egg.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 Did I mention that having a brain tumor totally sucks?\u00a0 I think I might have.<\/p>\n
So now what?<\/p>\n
I plan to enjoy this summer as much as we can.\u00a0 While I won’t disregard anything the docs want me to do, I say “damn the torpedoes”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s going to be a great summer.<\/p>\n
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