Last Wednesday, we went to Houston and met with the doctors about Rach. It turns out that there is a new growth in her brain. They think that all of the growth that she had before has been stopped by radiation. We won’t know for sure for months because we’ll have to watch the scans. The new growth is on the left side of her brain and is blocking her nerve pathways transmitting to the right side of her body. She is having trouble using the right side of her mouth, her leg, & hand. Needless to say, it’s caused some frustration for her. She’s not able to walk right now and speech is not where it was. The doctors are pretty confident that radiation can take care of this new “aggressive mutation” (that’s what they call it). The only problem is they can give her more radiation if we wait longer between the last radiation. So she gets to do more chemo for a few months. Hopefully, the chemo will do her some good and we’ll see some improvements soon. We were hoping to be done but this isn’t the worse news we could get. We just have to keep pushing forward.
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