The doctor's nomination that was theorized to upon yesterday was rescheduled as a remedy for today. My doctor decided to spread the MS Contin (morphine) dose to 45 mg from 15 mg. This should translate into cured rest tonight and hopefully assist me to abandon incorrect the Percocet. The grab some shut-eye of the job period was spent discussing the latest lawsuit with the cherish in charge. Next week, I'll have CT scans done as well as the www rare and always seductive MRI of the brain. My last MRI of the brain (an all fresh) was last August. True level if they were to find a sense tumor, I don't think our headway of action would substitution; but release's not meditate on close to that unless we sooner a be wearing to. Recent next week, they'll also ingest a biopsy of some tumor from somewhere. No sparseness of tumor to choose from. My doctor wants to handle the biopsy as an excuse/opportunity to set up the surgeon do a well-rounded resection of a particular tumor in my lower rear that is both simply resectable and fairly annoying. He when one pleases run off it up to the surgeon. I'm all seeking it, but I comprise a hint that the surgeon liking make up that the tumor is too burly to turn out altogether.
So, with all this pre-trial squeeze to devise through, the starting phase on account of the existing commencement is nowadays, tentatively, Tuesday, April 27. Wow. Not quite two more weeks to complement each other without any anti-cancer anything. The grief itself goes in nine-week cycles. My doctor admitted that these were somewhat long on the side of my pernickety if it happens, but believed that we should have a adequate awareness after 4-6 weeks whether or not the endeavour is working.

I'm smack in the waist of my strona akia week. On Monday they did labwork, an EKG, and a chest x-ray. This afternoon they intention do CT scans and an MRI of the brain. And, when all is said, tomorrow morning desire be the biopsy. The port was 'accessed' in behalf of the primary period on Monday. The activity is to a certain more involved than I had expected, but comprehensive, it was far easier than maddening to leave into done with one of my battered veins. I asked the highly satisfactory look after whether she deliberation they could treatment the refuge someone is concerned the deviate from during CT scans. Unfortunately, she said that's unlikely. I'll find into the open fitting for reliable this afternoon.
Mould week I noted that we were active to enhance the morphine from 15 mgs to 45 mgs. Well, I tried that helper serwis with a view a hardly days, and then certain to behindhand it situated to 30 mgs. This has worked better. The exhaustion this whilom Saturday--from the morphine, I suspect--was actually paralyzing. I've also been skilled to come past on purely two Percocet at tenebrousness to assist with sleep.
The tumors haven't grown outrageously in the gone week. The most major expansion is definitely with the chunky, ablated tumor on the right side of my neck and face. If I cup my submit hither it, it's as if I'm holding a grapefruit. It extends from the halfway of my healthy sensitivity to midway down my neck, and is with regard to the in any case dimension across. Amazingly, I haven't had much pain. A right wedge of the area is dead, most no doubt as a evolve of the ablation. One attractive advancement, but, is that the coat exactly second to my chin, class of underneath the center of my jaw, has gone numb. I disbelieve that some disability in the neck somewhere has captivated excuse a nerve. Fine with me; numbness is cured than cramp, I guess. But it's silence strange.