Jan. 31 2012

Hello all!

I guess its been about 4 months since my last post and I guess that is mostly because I grew tired of talking about my life with cancer and all the baggage that comes with it.

I can't recall if I mentioned in my previous post that I now have 3 tumours along for the ride in my brain or not. Anyways...I do, and have now been on low dose chemotherapy for 299 days as of today. My last MRI showed some shrinkage in the newest (and smallest) tumour. The other 2 have not grown any further so the chemo must be doing some good. Unfortunately, the side effects continue to plague me. The worst is the drained energy level. There are some days where I think I could sleep for the full 24 hours! On top of all that, I still have the open site on the top of my head which has gone from a pinhole to the size of a quarter since my last surgery. I have been told in the past by the plastic surgeon and my Oncologist that they cannot attempt to close it while I am on chemo because of my already suppressed immune system as well as the fact that chemo hinders the healing process.
Fast forward to last week.........I received a notice in the mail that when they did a swab culture of the drainage from my head, the results came back saying that there was the presence of M.R.S.A. (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus). So, I'm on 2 antibiotics for now until the powers that be decide what is the lessor of the 2 evils.....take me off chemo and perform a surgery to clean out my head, or continue chemo until my body rejects it and then do a surgery.

So until that time, I fight the daily headaches and pains with pill, pills and more pills.
This Friday I will get more botox shots in my lower leg to hopefully let my foot res better. When it wears off, I find that I am walking on the side of my foot which is quite painful as well as my leg has a lot of spasms during the night.

So my friends, that's it in a nutshell!!

Until next time........

Ed