Horatio update: Post radiation results in

[Lynn49]

I'm sure she is just fine and taking it easy

I sure hope so....but I'm a worrier, and it's not like Tara not to check in......

[Lynn49]

[IthinkIcan]

I sure hope so....but I'm a worrier, and it's not like Tara not to check in......

I understand your concern Lynn, I am an optimist and I like to believe that sometimes "no news is good news"....... So here is hoping she'll be back soon and ease all your worries

[gameprogirl]

Hope your ok Tara, I try to keep up on things as much as I can & I've been thinking of you.

[Lynn49]

Tara.......{{{{{gentle hugs}}}}}... Missing you.....

[walkonby]

hoping all is well with you Tara

[Lynn49]

[ninna]

hello hun. Hope you are feeling okay these days!

[Skippy]

Thinking of and praying for you&yours.

[22hicks]

I'm sending you positive vibes, & wishing you all the best.

[Judstir]

Tara I hope you are resting and receiving the positive energy that is coming from this web-site. You are loved by all the SC'ers and our prayers are always going out to you.

[Insane]

Just dropping a line to let you know I'm a little worried about you.

[TaraF]

Oh Lynn you're such a worrier, and I love you for it! How did you know something was "up". I do appreciate all of the concern from everyone here and I posted this in the wonderful thread of concern that Lynn posted regarding me being away. Seems my problems have been brain swelling from my brain radiation due to being weened off of the steroids too quickly. Who knew being taken off of meds that quick could throw you into such a tailspin. I just copy/pasted the post that I typed up over there. Thank you all for your concern about my absence, it means so much. I think I need to buy a tablet so when I'm laid up in bed I can be online. All I have is a laptop and cellphone, and when I don't feel like being upright or just feeling "icky", the laptop is too bulky. And for whatever reason my cellphone hates trying to access SC lol. Boxing sales should still be online, right? lol See I must be feeling better (as my husband would say) I'm thinking of shopping. Here is what I posted in Lynns thread, I'm feeling so much better than I have been now that I'm on the dex. THank you all for your concern.

I've been experiencing severe cerebral edema (brain swelling) for the last 8 weeks or so. And for 5 of those weeks I was unable to eat or keep water down, it made for an amazing diet with a total weight loss of 25 lbs. I said to my Oncologist it's the only time I've been happy I wasn't a "skinny b*tch" to start with lol But it seriously took a toll on me. I was literally the walking dead for weeks, I only left the apartment to go to appointments or the hospital, I was treated for dehydration 4 times, I saw so many Doctors and had so many tests and they all came back fine. I at one point was thinking I was the healthiest sick person ever. lol

Apparently after having over a few dozen CT Scans and MRI's and 6 weeks of brain radiation in the last 4 years Doctors are reluctant to expose you to more radiation than you absolutely need to, so no Dr is really too eager to toss me in for an MRI right now to check out my brain. However, I was placed on dexamethasone 2 weeks ago for brain swelling and took my first dose at night and the next morning I didn't vomit. And I haven't since. And I feel normal. I can eat, I can drink, I can walk around without my barf bucket in hand (I was attached at the hip to it) because I was vomiting all day, daily for weeks. So my Oncologist weened me already from 4mg a day to 2mg a day and now he wants to start me Monday with 2 mg every other day. And IF the nausea and vomiting returns he'll shove me in for an MRI, if not he'll see if I can be weened off entirely. *sighs*. Here's the thing: I have so much swelling and so much water on my brain I can actually hear it swooshing around when I move my head to the right. Weird, right? My regular MRI is scheduled for March 4 and I get they don't want to expose me to more radiation then they need to, but, ummmm, it's my brain and I'm dealing with brain cancer here so I kind of would rather have an MRI sooner rather than later.

[Lynn49]

[22hicks]

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