Surgery Cancelled For Today

A few bits of information....

Dr. Parsa mentioned over the weekend that he wanted to do an MRI to
make sure that Karyn's lack of speech was not due to the tumor
growing.....and if it was, he was going to call off the surgery
pending a shift in our plan of action. After a few false starts
getting to the MRI room over the weekend, Karyn is getting wheeled
down at this moment so we should have some answers soon.

I don't like to speculate because all I expect is bad news, but the
fact that her headaches had vanished since the cyst was removed makes
me think that this change in her mental status is due to the excess
of fluid in her head. Still, we all know that there is a bit of tumor
remaining that had crossed the midline into the left side of her
brain---and this is where all the personality and speech areas are.
Needless to say, this is quite scary for all of us as we wait for the
results of that MRI.

For now the surgery has been cancelled and rescheduled for Wednesday
to give us a little more time to review the results. There probably
won't be any information for the next day or so, but I am holding my
breath and have everything crossed that this will turn out well.

One other positive note was in something Dr. Parsa said to Erica on
Saturday. He said the reason he got interested and ultimately heavily
involved in the immuno-research for tumors was that the statistics
showed a dramatic increase in the long-term prognosis for those
patients who had gotten infections.

~Julian