We both slept pretty good last night. The transplant resident and Dr Selby stopped by this morning. They repeated what the eye doctors had told us yesterday. Selby said that they didn't want to get the Neuro team involved in order to have to take a biopsy of the mass. They are pretty sure that the mass is due to the myeloma cancer plasma cells. They want to finish running the test and do a full body X-ray to see if they can find any other myeloma any where else.
Selby is pretty sure they will find more evidence of myeloma else where in the body. He sounded scared to go into Stevan's scull and try to take this mass out. He said that if there is other myeloma else where they will have to treat it with chemo as well, so they might as well treat this mass the same way.
With this being Sunday, we were pretty sure that they weren't going to do anything today but this afternoon they came and got him for his full body X-rays. We will get those results tomorrow along with all the blood lab results that were done yesterday.
We have also been able to visit with a friend, Beth, who is also in the hospital up here. She had a brain tumor removed back in Sept. We had been meaning to visit her but never could find the right time. It was nice to visit with her since she is up here by herself most of the time. Stevan would get her to laughing so hard. I think it was good for both of them to share their stories and compare.
We got caught up on sleep and rest today. I'm concerned that this mass could be messing with Stevan's memory. I will be discussing that with the doctor in the morning. Tomorrow will start early and full of questions and hopefully some answers.
Again thank you for the prayers.
Us before Myeloma
Celebrating our 5 year Anniversary a few days early. Wow! We've both changed over the past few years.
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