Good News from the Radiologist

Good news from the radiologist.  He believes they can remove all the tumors from Julie's brain with minimal long term damage to her brain.  They plan to give her radiation treatments five times a week for three weeks.  They will then check their progress and if necessary use some type of laser knife to clean up anything they missed.

They are optimistic that much of the problems Julie is having now is from swelling of her brain from the tumors.  They think her vision, motor control, and balance should come back to normal.  I asked why if the radiation works so great they can't use it on the rest of her body.  I didn't get a satisfactory answer.  His answer was we do it this because if we used radiation in one spot in her body it would just come back somewhere else.  I said, well, it does that anyway, so why chemo over radiation.  His answer was, because we found out it works better.  I concluded it did not really know why, it is something he has accepted without understanding.

We talked about our children especially Michael.  He seemed entriqued of the concept of a hippie.

Julie got some flowers from her brother and sister in law, see picture below.  The flowers and the good news from the doc had Julie's spirits up.  They also increased her steriods, which is also helping.  They said one side effect of the steriods is that Julie may get more surly.  I think they are working.