I didn't have headaches anymore so I knew it was doing something! I was excited to see where we were at. I had the MRI and then we went to Dr. Kassam's office to hear the results.
The chemo did nothing. The tumor actually grew!
How frustrating is this? I lost my hair and felt like shit for weeks and it was All. For. Nothing!
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| The photo on the left is after chemo and on the right is before. You can see that it has grown larger |
We are now stopping the chemo and going in for surgery. This time it is going to be a craniotomy. I was being opened up from the bottom of one ear to the top of the other. I had no hair so we didn't have to worry about it being shaved. But since I was still weak from the chemo I needed to wait four weeks to gain some strength before having the surgery.
October 23 we are heading into surgery.
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| In Mackinac Island |
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At the Packer game!
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In the mean time, I got to go home and have fun and feel good for a while. During this time I went to Mackinac Island, to a Packer game and a good friend came to town.
I was prepared to come home after surgery feeling and looking like crap. So, I got my kids' snow gear bought for the year. I also got their Halloween costumes ready. I had a halloween party that I wanted to go to if I was feeling okay so I bought a costume with a fancy face mask so if I had a swollen eye, I can at least hide it. I've been looking at photos of people after craniotomies and a lot of them had a puffy eye. Some had bruising. Others didn't look so bad. Crossing my fingers I don't look horrible after it either!
The kids were going to be staying with my Aunt Marcia while my parents were with me down in Milwaukee.
I'd be gone about a week again.
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