Its been a stressful week to say the least, especially when Marti was doing so well a mere 8 days ago.
We went down for the consultation with Dr Abraham at WVU. He agrees that we have gotten all we can out of Taxol. He went over other options to switch to. She may be a candidate for a clinical trial which I think has an excellent chance of helping her. The problem is she would definitely have to go to WVU (Morgantown, WV) on a weekly basis--2 hours there and 2 hours back, plus whatever time she is there, probably several hours. We would definitely need significant help to do that.
However, before that decision is made, he is concerned aboout what is causing the significant weakness and the sudden major increase in need for pain meds.
Therefore, an MRI of the spine was done yesterday. I would really super worried about it, but it's nowhere near as bad as I thought it might be. The radiologist went over it with me vertebra by vertebra: Two vertebrae appear to have LESS cancer than on the January MRI. Of course 2 or 3 have a little more, also, but the overall impression is that the changes are not very much since January, and there is no spinal cord compression.
So now we are going ahead with an MRI of the R hip and R leg, where she is having a lot of pain--hopefully thurs or fri.
Debbie and Ed are visiting this weekend.
More to come soon-
Love, Bob S.
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