A bump in the road

Well, we have hit a small bump in the road.  As previously mentioned, Jenny has been feeling pretty fragile over the last seven days- wind in the ear, pressure buildup, headaches. Ohh.. did I mention puking?  

Yeah, so on Monday we made a trip to the ER around 10pm because she could not keep anything down.  After hearing all of the stuff about Natasha Richardson we decided it would wise to make a trip down to the ER.  They did a head CT and did not find anything conclusive, just a little 'fluid' that they did not seem to be concerned about.  She did make a fresh vegetable juice earlier in the evening with some questionable greens! They did not smell too good... so we thought maybe a touch of food poisoning  might have been the culprit! So they gave her some medicine for the up-chucking and she felt much better and we were back home by 130am!

This morning (April 1) we already had a MRI scheduled plus a meeting with her neurosurgeon. Dr. Shapiro indicated that  in comparing the CT scan from Monday and the MRI from this morning it looked like the fluid buildup had grown.  Guess what that means? Another surgery!  So yes, Jenny is scheduled for another surgery Thursday (tomorrow) morning to drain the hematoma that has formed.  You can see it in the MRI image above.  Dr. Shapiro said that it would take him about 15 minutes to do the procedure but we should plan on about an hour from start to finish.  Unfortunately she will probably be in the hospital again for a day or two.  We asked him if this was normal and he indicated that it was "abnormal" but given the size of the tumor he was not shocked that this happened.  This should help her feel much better!  Anyways, we have to be down at the hospital by 9am with surgery scheduled for 11am.  Of course this setback will delay the proton therapy treatments but hopefully it will help with Jenny's overall well-being.

I will send out an update tomorrow as I find out more.