I had an MRI today. The process was miserable. The headrest pad was too thin and the back of my head really started aching before we even got to the contrast dye portion of the test. FINALLY we got there and I only had about 10 minutes left. Then about a minute from the end, the tech comes on and says the contrast did not inject so we had to start that section over. Another 11 minutes on the table with no break. I was pretty miserable. As it was, I finished about 2:30 and had to be at the cyberknife Doc's appointment at 3:00. I rushed over there with a little time to spare.
The reward was that my head tumor is STILL "rock solid stable". Sweet! What I love about this Doc is that she always takes the time to answer questions and show me the scans to explain everything thoroughly. She confirmed for me that there has been no change in the spleen tumor. So only the hip and a tiny 1 cm tumor on the right side had grown any. She was very positive that this round of radiation would either kill or send into another long remission the tumor in my hip. She was also confident that I wouldn't have chronic pain there. She said I should take it easy, but it should be feeling better once radiation is finished.
What's more, she thinks the hormoe therapy is still being effective. She said sometimes if you have multiple tumors some will grow while others are responding to the treatment. She suggested asking the oncologist to delay chemo until the end of summer. "Scan it again in 10 weeks and take it from there." I'm sure I'll bring that up. :)
All in all a big mood booster when I really needed it. :-)
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