MRI SCAN
Well this has been a bit of a busy week,we went down to melboure on tuesday as my eldest son michael who is 17 now has a Astrocytomas tumour on the brain he has had it since he was five years old. this is a slow growing one not cancerous and also has two vp shunt on each side of head for fluid build up.
He has had numerous operations as well as 8 months of chemotherphy in 2001 which wasn't good as it made him quiet sick, he has now finished his six week course of radioation treatment, he had to have it because he has a cyst inside the tumour which they can't do much about because where the tumour located , it's near the spial cord so they don't want to touch it they think the tumour has grown but not sure so that's why he had to go and have the radiation if not then they will have to insert a little tube for the cyst to drain out which means another operation, and he is now having trouble with his balance due to the medication he is on.
So next week we go and find out the results of the mri scan which won't show up much due to the swelling it will take at least 6 to 9 months for it to all go down, but at least i know that everything is going well he hasn't been at school for two weeks due to his balance and tiedness so we have a visting teacher who comes out and works with michael and at the moment we have a long way to go,so that's what i have been up to in the last few days till next week cerio
He has had numerous operations as well as 8 months of chemotherphy in 2001 which wasn't good as it made him quiet sick, he has now finished his six week course of radioation treatment, he had to have it because he has a cyst inside the tumour which they can't do much about because where the tumour located , it's near the spial cord so they don't want to touch it they think the tumour has grown but not sure so that's why he had to go and have the radiation if not then they will have to insert a little tube for the cyst to drain out which means another operation, and he is now having trouble with his balance due to the medication he is on.
So next week we go and find out the results of the mri scan which won't show up much due to the swelling it will take at least 6 to 9 months for it to all go down, but at least i know that everything is going well he hasn't been at school for two weeks due to his balance and tiedness so we have a visting teacher who comes out and works with michael and at the moment we have a long way to go,so that's what i have been up to in the last few days till next week cerio
posted by Trish at 9:40 am
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