Sunday, May 13, 2007

We're all here today with Hannah for Mother's Day. Unfortunately, she had a bit of a setback. Hannah began experiencing peripheral neuropathy-trouble walking, speaking, memory and other cognitive issues and her balance is unstable. I noticed today that she is even more unstable than she has been on her feet, something that she has been experiencing for the past 3 days, but it was getting progressively worse. The oncologist attending today called in the neurologist as well as the neurosurgeon (to be sure it wasn't a complication of the tumor). Along with our oncologist, they decided to hold her chemo today, to see what her status is tomorrow.

On top of that, they started giving her a new drug yesterday to help combat the nausea (she has vomited the last 3 days in a row) and that drug made her extremely agitated, hyper and emotional. She hardly slept at all last night, and woke up at 6am this morning. They also stopped that drug today, in case it was also suspect with regards to the neuropathy.

We'll know more tomorow when they return to reassess her and make the determination on the last dose of her chemo. We don't expect to come home tomorrow, as was originally planned. She is not happy to be here, so this extra time will be a hard sell, but God willing we'll be home very soon.

xoxo
Kim