Hi,
Sounds like our enemy is much more formidable than we thought. Patty's CAT scans
came back yesterday with another tumor in the brain -so we're in the unhappy
position that neither the radiation nor the chemo worked to contain the disease.
We're faced with some really serious choices now - how much to push forward with
more and more medication and treatments, as opposed to focusing on quality of
life and time together. We are still planning a consult at a large center to see
if anyone has any ideas - but we are wary of large amounts of physical and
emotional investment in clinical studies with unknown side effects. We just need
some time to sort things out, but this disease is not giving us a reprieve. One
effect of the seizure is that she cannot be by herself for the next couple of
weeks - this adds more complexity to our logistics because I need to find
someone to stay at home even to run some errands. I'm still amazed that its only
2 months since the diagnosis - almost feels like she'd have been better off with
no treatments at all - but who's to know ?
Will keep you posted on how things are going.
Love to all
Rohit
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