dp talked to the head head guy on rounds this morning. They want the steroids to shrink the tumor before surgery, and it's not shrinking as fast as they'd like. It sounds like they're going to watch her over the weekend, and maybe do surgery on Monday. It sounds like everyone agrees that surgery is the first step, but the 'when' is still up in the air. dp gets the feeling that Dr. C would like to expedite it, but since he's not the guy with scalpel, it's not his call.
Meanwhile, they've lowered the dose of steroids, I think because dp wasn't handling them so well. She felt better this morning -- I think she ate all the applesauce and some of the grapes last night. She ordered the same thing for breakfast today, but she fell asleep around 9:30 or so, and is still sleeping now.
Her blood pressure is still high, and they said that the CT from yesterday morning showed the tumor essentially unchanged. The double vision has gone away and the vertigo has come back, so I guess that's some progress. Diana says the vertigo isn't has bad as it was yesterday, but pointed out that whoever decided the room-dividing curtains should include vertical stripes had never had vertigo.
Dr. C mentioned that there's an accupuncturist on staff. We're looking into that.
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I talked to Sally and am keeping her up to date on all the new changes and up dates. Know that you're getting prayers from Oregon and Washington.
Lisa(Arney) Ludgood
Monday might not be such a bad day to do it. Everyone's back at work and you're fully staffed. Jeff and I were talking about that earlier.
I just arrived home after a relatively easy flying day. The expected Thanksgiving weekend crowds were non-existent. I'm hoping that no new posts here means it's been an uneventful day for you as well.
Yet again, I concur with Nancy. We're hoping it was a good day. Love, Katie
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