New MRI

Because Wayne was having problems with balance again, and feeling weak on the left side as well as being dizzy, he went into the hospital yesterday.  They decided to get an MRI again today to see what's going on, and without the radiologist's read, the neurologist thought it looked good, and that a couple of the tumors had decreased in size a bit.  Who Hoo!  His balance is back to his new normal.

However, they think that this may have been caused by the chemo and how it interacts with Wayne's other medicines, particularly tegretal, which is his tried and true epilepsy med.  But it interferes with so many other medicines that they really want to change his med.  I called the epilepsy specialist who Wayne sees in Seattle, Dr. Wilinksi, and he said to go ahead and make the change.  They are going to keep Wayne in the hospital tonight and tomorrow to see how he reacts to the new med and then release him if he is doing well.  They will taper his tegretal down and we'll have to watch for seizures.  But if the new med works as well as tegretal, the we will be really happy because it doesn't really react much with any other meds.  I will know more tomorrow, including the official MRI report and then we will go from there. I'll put us another post when I have more to report.

(In the meantime, Glenda is looking for an oncologist in Missoula and trying to find temporary housing while we wait for an apartment,  We'd rather go to Montana sooner than later.)