MRI Stat at 10 PM Tonight

Diary 20100513  MRI Stat at 10 pm tonight


It has seemed kind of like a magic time.  Herceptan keeping the cancer out of her body and Tykerb keeping it out of her brain.  It was easy to forget that the doctors told us that that they could only contain it for awhile.

Shortly after going on Liptor a month ago a series of problems started with Julie, probably not related to Lipitor, but an unneeded prescription anyway.  If she lives long enough to have a cholesterol problem, then everything has gone great. Over the last three weeks some symptoms have sprung forth very rapidly in retrospect.   

Julie has pain and numbness of her legs below her knees. Her sciatic nerve hurts on both legs.  She has lost control of her bladder (inconstancy) and is constipated.  She says it feels like there is a golf ball side lump inside her rectum and she has lost feelings in both the butt and groin area.   Her walking as become hobbled and her balance unsteady.  
Dr. Hosford, her oncologist examined her this morning, and sent her for an MRI STAT.  The earliest they can get her in is 10 pm tonight.  So, it will probably be sometime before noon before tomorrow we hear the results.  Dr. Hosford called her tonight asking when the MRI was scheduled.  She is a good doctor and a good person.