Please pray for peace for our family right now. I've had 3 seizures in the past couple of months, which seem to take their toll on everyone in the family. It's been really hard to not be discouraged by this plague of seizures that have come on. I usually only have a couple each year. [...]
Yeah, it's been awhile. We're topping the off the last day of summer Oregon style today....pouring down rain. So I thought it was a good time to update my blog. I've been trying to squeeze every last moment that I can out in the sun with the boys before our weather changes, thus the blog [...]
I got an email from my doctor at UCLA today.....finally, and they think that the tumor is stable from the MRI in April. Yippee!!! They didn't say that the tumor had grown at all, so we couldn't be happier with that news. Dr. Liau told me that the board recommends continuing on the chemotherapy regimen [...]
We have decided to start another round of natural treatment, unless we hear otherwise about my MRI from UCLA. I always send a copy of my MRIs to UCLA, where I've had the last 2 brain surgeries done by the most amazing surgeon, for them to review. They actually first caught the tumor recurrence last [...]
SO, after a week of nerve-wracking anticipation, the official word is that the MRI and PET scan results seem conflicting. Nice, eh? The PET scan is showing the area of tumor to not be uptaking any sugar. The PET scan in June showed that it was taking up sugar 2.5 times faster than the rest [...]
I still don't have any written reports back from my PET or MRI, which I'm hoping to receive today, but from my MRI scan yesterday, the tumor looked stable. We don't know for sure until we see the radiologist report, but we will be thrilled with that news!!! We want it to shrink or disappear, [...]